When you think about time, you discover that it is relation. Posit a single unified entity without context or observer, time cannot exist. Time, then, is the relation between objects. In physics, this is abstracted. In reality, it is never abstract, except in discussion.

Since time is relation, if we posit two objects in a context that somehow connects them… each of their qualities and potentials comprises a specific temporal ‘stream’. Simple qualities like history, orientation, directionality, and other features of character… for which there are endless sources… each »quality gives rise to a distinct aspect of temporality.

Even for two (purely hypothetical) simple objects in relation in a ‘pure’ context, the ‘dimensions’ of their temporal relationally are extremely complex to put it mildly. If we counted them they would increase as we counted. Explosively. And our counting would become involved … For each new particle or structure that is added to ‘an object’ the local relational temporal complexity is exponentially »diversified. This complexity is the sum over the unique characteristics of time »in relation — as local to each participant ‘object’, structure, and symmetry… at every order from the quantum to the universe.

In this sense, we can see that physical objects comprise unique instances of timespace, and these are, locally, highly organized and mutually instructive in their temporal relation and identity. This is expressed, in part, as the ‘dimensional intelligence’ we see in physical forms, structures and relationships within nature.

The more relationally complex an object or situation is, the greater the number of paths of diverse evolutionary temporalities that emerge as results. These results are reflexive in the sense that they draw upon themselves in further generation of novel temporal dimensions and trajectories.

They »generate new »domains of time. From one perspective, this is what matter »is. It is the process of the local generation and evolution of impossibly intricate multi-dimensional temporality.

But »organisms represent an entirely other order of »time. When you imagine the myriad specifiable ‘objects’ that comprise your physical body, you must then start again and include the myriadly countable organisms and relationships that are your body. Not merely within your body, either. All of them. In all of time and space. But even as your own body… you have tens of billions of animal cells and tens of trillions of bacterial cells.

Imagine that your relationships are entirely limited to your own body (an abjectly absurd idea), can you get a sense of the explosive relationship between »each of your constituents… where each one is a unique instance and embodiment of time… and »all of their possible characteristics of relation? You are to time what stars are to light.

And your mind is a repercussion of and participation in this process.

Time… is »relation.

And you are a relational superposition of unimaginable sophistication.

And your consciousness is an »instance of and direct vehicle of participation in these matters. In time. And light. Unless we have the wrong idea about time, life, light… and what organisms are.