In our modern temporal ontologies, we have a problem. It’s similar to the problem we may have had with the idea that the world is flat. We measure time as if there’s only a single world line or light cone, which is impossible (and conceptually disabling).

Einstein, in unifying space and time, and in his description of ‘world-lines’, should have led us into an entirely novel and astonishing temporal ontology. Yet, this project failed, primarily because we were interested in Energy (weapons and technologies) more than time.

Biologies such as those native to our world create vastly complex biotemporal hyperstructures in timespace. Organisms can be usefully understood as ‘special modes of timespace’. In this walk and talk I discuss these issues in some depth, and present models that can aid us in leaving the ‘one world line’ (flat) temporal onotologies we are both accustomed to and trapped within.

This recording follows my work in two recent essays which I link below for those interested.

https://organelle.medium.com/understanding-time-a-biorelational-perspective-770cdd4af974

https://organelle.medium.com/a-metric-for-biorelational-time-3f45491405cf