The ‘Here and Now’ is about Space and Time. E.H. illustrates this with printed music and ledger lines. The musical stave is the ‘space’ and the movement along it is ‘time’. On a piano keyboard we have space and the speed at which we play is time. Playing involves energy expenditure; the faster we play the greater the energy expended. So we have space, time and energy expended. (space, time, power.) ‘Time’ turned backwards, is ‘emit’; energy is released at every moment by an existential observer of time. i.e. you cannot observe time without releasing energy, moment by moment.
The eye cannot focus sharply over a large area. A small area focussed on can give a sharp image, but this is static. However, on the periphery of vision, where the image is vague, we are conscious of movement. This has a survival value; any moving object, out of focus, will attract our attention, because it could be a threat from a predator. So our visual sense operates in these two ways. We can look at a room full of people and choose to focus on a particular one, or to scan the room, focussing on each in turn. When we do this we lose formal consciousness of the others, but if any should move, then we will be aware of it in our peripheral vision. To focus sharply on one thing means excluding, for the time being, a sharp focus on the rest. To see another thing in sharp focus requires turning the eyes, and that takes time. My ‘here’ is the centre of my consciousness and ‘there’ is everywhere else. But I can say that someone else who is in the room with me is ‘here’ also. If a add a ’T’ and say ‘there’ then I am indicating something on the periphery of my awareness.
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