farewell, hello, farewell, hello... *

 
 
native american image
My name is Steve Gravely. 

The picture on the left is a Native American depiction of a mythical animal. The picture is also an accurate representation of the "shape" of my life in time. Do you see that this picture shows time moving in two directions simultaneously?

 

This page is an introduction to a series of research projects: 
past, present, and future.
Central to my research is the cultural construction of time. 
What is time, and how do human beings come to know and define time-related phenomena? 
Does objective time exist, and who would know that, and how?

Some cultures have personified time as a god, or a demon. Philosophers have described time as an illusion, or as "the unique subjective." How do you think about time?

         Like this?

clock

or this?

 indian goddess

Whichever of these images of time you prefer, it is interesting to remember that neither picture is time at all (although each obviously exists in time,) but each is a representation of a way of thinking about time.

 

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* Billy Pilgrim said this, quoting the preferred greeting on the planet Tralfamadore, in Kurt Vonnegut's often-banned, innocent novel Slaughterhouse Five.