#temporal object

[geckospots-blog]

Candidates for Temporal Objects

Alfread Whitehead’s Process Metaphysics: Actual Entities

Jacob Boehme’s 7 properties: Forms of Spirits

Buckminster Fuller’s Octave Wave: Unit Quantation of Nature

Robert Fludd’s Quaternary: Monochord of the World

A temporal object is posited in the sense of a noumenal object of intellectual intuition.  Perhaps it has a merely private form that can be generalized only with mathematical precision and formality.

[eidetisch]

Newtonian time can explain the separation of moments in time but not the continuity of these moments. Since temporal objects, like a melody or a sentence, are characterized by and experienced as a unity across a succession, an account of the perception of a temporal object must explain how we synthesize a flowing object in such a way that we (i) preserve the position of each tone without (ii) eliminating the unity of the melody or (iii) relating each tone by collapsing the difference in the order between the tones.