Temporal Studies: Simplicity, Complexity, and Memory
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This paper argues that simplicity and complexity cannot coexist within collective social-functional memory, exploring how memory influences temporal actions and decisions. It posits that memory has become a dominant metaphor in understanding contemporary technologies and decision-making processes. The discussion includes the distinction between applied memory and indulgence in the past, the potential creative aspects of memory, and the challenges in integrating both simple and complex modes of memory in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.
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Temporal studies is that discipline which studies the time and place of citizens, governments, and technologies. It also concerns the major questions of time: (1) What is time / are there better concepts than time? (2) Is there enough time / can we be efficient with time? (3) Is time just a variable to be overcome / can we be immortal?, and (4) Is time permanent, or can we time travel? Addressing these questions in a relative manner produces some major affirmatives, such as: value sometimes trumps time, we are alive, structured time is possible, and someone should be able to time travel, although maybe not us. Temporal studies is that discipline which addresses the meaning of the world, and the very finite, technical human potentials which effocate achievements in that identity. In this paper, I address the important concern of the relation between memory and simple and complex time.
At this point I will push forward my philosophical thesis, which is that simplicity and complexity cannot exist simultaneously in the memory. Specifically, this is not necessarily an individual memory, but rather the collective social-functional memory of society. This can be observed in dialectic occasions, where one person talks about simplicity, and another about complexity, and the two miss each other completely, although one or the other might be informative with a different contingent perspective.
I have a minor thesis that memory is a key player in temporal actions, not only because it explains the past in the axialarity of past-present-future (and opens the potential for psychic future concepts, including mundane things like planning and predicting), but also because memory is a dominant concept of contemporaneous explanation: facts about the past explain the past, but they also explain the present (teleology).
However, memory, it seems----if it is not the only player in temporal actions, a temptation I mean to refer to frequently---has come to represent a dominant position within mental decision-making, the kinds of decisions that ought to affect the future, but more often than not redound some aspect of the past. If we premise that memory is in the dominant position, this means that there is a schism between simple and complex memory.
Memory is now becoming a more dominant metaphor than merely pedagogy or rote memorization. It is also present in a wide variety of technologies. Suspiciously, these are the things that have been developed to have permanent significance on the human landscape. Circuit boards, for instance, are getting ever smaller, creating an ever and ever smaller minority which actually understands them. By the time these devices become invisible, or perhaps long before, there will be a double choice: to study the history of these devices, or to know the state-of-the-art.
If these devices in some sense symbolize memory, then not only is memory taking a larger and larger although less and less obvious role in human decision-making, but there may also be a double choice in the use of memory: to devote memory to future possibilities (applied memory), or to use memory exclusively to indulge the past. In this second sense, there is a further double-problem, first of the difference between the presence and the past, and secondly whether such memories can be vital. And, a further difficulty is that, even if the vitality of the past is realized, it may be rejected by the norm of the state-of-the-art.
Another thing to add to the conversation is the presence of dream-states in memory. Memory may be creative. And in this, I see a dangerous dependence on the unknown, but also a vast potential for clarification. Creative memory seems to dwell in locations, to ruminate, to almost cast spells. Perhaps creativity is enough to bridge the gap between simple and complex memory. Otherwise, the choice may be to reject a primarily memory-based paradigm.
Nathan Coppedge, SCSU 10/4/2013
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