Unit 1: “What is the Future?”
Prompt: “Post a comment or question about the Taylor reading (or our discussion of it on Tuesday) as well as a comment or question about the Borges reading. Aim for a short paragraph for each. Your section professor, who may have more specific instructions, might use some of your posts as the basis for discussion on Thursday morning.”
Response: I found it particularly interesting how Taylor speaks about the flow of time. Everyone experiences time differently, and it is fully dependent on the stimuli affecting them. Perhaps this is the reason why time seems to “pass by” the older we get–we tend to increase the activities in our everyday lives, thereby causing more distractions to our consciousness. Beginning a sport or having fun with friends has no impact on time, but rather has an impact on our observation of it. It’s mildly amusing how “time” is a concept we have developed to keep track of physical changes to objects in space, yet it is a natural force that we still fail to comprehend even in the slightest.
Expansion: Given that this was a post made in the first week of the semester, I would say that my idea of the observation of time passing has been confirmed. As I said in the above response to Taylor, “we tend to increase the activities in our everyday lives, thereby causing more distractions to our consciousness.” My observation of time seems to have sped up since school started, with each week coming to a close in what feels like a shorter period of time than the last; at the same time, class workloads have increased and I have remained busy in almost every waking moment. From my eyes, it is almost as if I blinked in August and opened my eyes in November. However, while others may or may not agree with my notion that time appears to move faster when one is more engaged, the mere fact that this is my observation of it exemplifies how flexible this concept is, and how it can take shape in a different form to everyone.
