It will soon become apparent to users of this blog that I enjoy philosophical debate.
As such all these projects I am asked to complete tend to contain an element of philosophy.
Thus when handed a project in which our simple instruction was to "Play with the concept of time", it didn't take long before a variety of meanings for time came into play.
The philosophy
For the sake of this project, Time is not actually tied to minutes, hours and other units of measurement.
In fact it is more accurate to say that it is the opposite, with units being created to allow people to better manage themselves IN time.
So if time is not measurable in definable units, then is time a continues event? A single entity or is it a current?
Fiction writers often paraphrase these words "the constant passage of the future to the past".
There are many theories already in existence, but so many get tied into the idea of fate and destiny that it looses all interest.
More interesting for this project is how time is perceived. If we strip away the measurement of time that society created to allow its citizens to function and structure themselves, then how do we experience time?
Right in that last sentence is the answer I came to, Experience. We know that we exist in time as events unfold in a sequence, we experience events as they occur to ourselves and note our experience of time from those events.
This opens a whole Pandora's box worth of messy questions, time dilation, personal time, eternity or singularity Etc.
But while there may be no "Hope" at the bottom of the box, all these questions are excellent material to work with, and so we reach the idea.
If time is experience, or at least noted by the acquiring of experience. Then does the amount of experience we can gain in our lives dictate how we perceive time?
Does a short lived mayfly experience the passage of time faster than the long lived turtle?
This is the idea on which my project will be based.
Creative design, Philosophical debate, Game exploration
