more Friday 7:45am

I like to get up earlier than this and then go back to bed... but I'll still write this and then have breakfast and then go back to bed...

:)

just thinking I have to add more pictures... in particular thinking about an "Elephant" lamp...

when I woke up earlier, a lizard was crawling across the ceiling... wondered if I should try to catch it and put it out but I didn't...

thinking about "F"'s and one "T"... food, family and friends... the "T" is about time... but then I've ALWAYS thought about time... the passage of time... the use of time... the concept of time...

time is a human theoretical construct...

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Among prominent philosophers, there are two distinct viewpoints on time.

One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence. Time travel, in this view, becomes a possibility as other "times" persist like frames of a film strip, spread out across the time line. Sir Isaac Newton subscribed to this realist view, and hence it is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time.

The opposing view is that time does not refer to any kind of "container" that events and objects "move through", nor to any entity that "flows", but that it is instead part of a fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which humans sequence and compare events. This second view, in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, holds that time is neither an event nor a thing, and thus is not itself measurable nor can it be travelled.

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interesting to note that Newton and Liebniz are the controversial independent co-founders of calculus...

wonder if these are good books: The Calculus Controversy is a major topic in Neal Stephenson's set of historical novels, The Baroque Cycle (2003-04). The antagonistic nature of the dispute also plays a role in Greg Keyes' steam punk alternate history series The Age of Unreason.