Time Alert

Just because I know that some members of the audience sometimes miss the inferences I’ve decided to be clear about it.

I suspect that self-awareness and consciousness depend critically upon an awareness of time; past, present and future.

To be able to recall oneself in the past, or to project oneself into the future, these must both be a critical requirement of human consciousness.

Imagine a goldfish with the infamous three second memory. No memory of the past self; no consciousness.

Similarly you’d have to think that the goldfish doesn’t spend too much time worrying about the future.

Therefore it’s extraordinary that the super-evolved humans attempt to ‘live in the now.’

What’s going on here?

Well they are simply trying to depress their human consciousness in attempt to at least partially achieve the contentment that a goldfish must feel when it’s not being eaten by the pet cat.

These human pseudo-goldfish, in their quest, depend entirely on a safe human environment (such as a nanny state) because by attenuating their consciousness they are turning off the key human survival mechanism of using the past to intelligently model the future, and adapt behaviors accordingly.

Irony alert!

To be fair to the pseudo-goldfish, the habits of consciousness might sometimes overshoot or be on some sort of Pareto curve where the cons of living too much in the past or future start to outweigh the benefits.

Knowing this I’d suggest that the concept of ‘living in the now’ itself should be used cautiously and not exclusively.

It’s all about the balance and the vibe of the thing.