On the Ohenomenology of Intuition. V.

Really, if we are to be totally stringent, the only really sensible results that we have had, were from this imperfect experiment which can only make reference to the future, therefore we must conclude that our relationship is only TO the future; we are all ways looking forward. We can never look back. Because again: According to Common Sense, any projection of an aesthetic response to stimuli which are available to us at the present which might have not been able to us at the past is therefore a projection upon the future. Because these stimuli will be available to us in the future. And since the past isn’t really, ostensibly, available to us anyway, since we only really have the present, it seems as though time does come, scientifically, from the future. Not the past. Again: Common Sense IS that in the past, in the archaic, the present was not available but the present will be available in the future. So we’re all ways contemplating the future when we are trying to project something based upon current information. When we are trying to project a theory of the past, we are trying to escape current information, and we are trying to return to that archaic state to imagine a situation where the present was unavailable.

This IS Common Sense, once analysed from outside Common Sense.

But that means that since the past is never available to us in its untarnished form, we must all ways be, therefore, all ways thinking of the Future. I am not saying this as a moral imperative; I am saying this as a matter of fact. Though of course, as with all language, this can be interpreted both ways.

Dm.A.A.