cont.
"Ideas are somewhat dimensional, like time. Time can be useful, when associated with events, when recollecting or when projecting. Time does not just exist in your brain. Time is everywhere at once but when we attend to it, we can create a focus that is applied to the specific entity of our attention.
Ideas are always available, existing everywhere at once, without being in a specific locale, or with specific limitations; except or until we find it useful for the sake of our conscious awareness of things, to account for things of the past, the study of things, or in discovery and creativity."
If you try to find the location of time you are apt to fall short unless you simply conclude as you have done with 'ideas' that the location is completely in your brain. That conclusion leaves a lot to be desired. For example, it assumes that time is meaningless and under the control of your brain. Your conscious awareness provides meaningfulness to the effects of time on your experience. But can you declare that time has no effect without your brains grasp of it?
Ideas are similar. We often use the phrase, 'an idea came to me'. That phrase does not deny the involvement of your mental processes, but it presumes the existence of ideas in a broader sense. |
