On Time, and Money : a rudimentary ontology of intelligence

Most people do not concern themselves with theoretical physics, in fact the closest they get to doing physics is commerce, and aesthesia ... sensing as a body in the world, and trading things with other bodies. To most people, THIS IS LIFE.

This is what they preoccupy themselves with, despite the impossibility of forming precise models, from such agglomerated and unanalysed underliers. Instead of the concept of energy, it is more useful for most people to think about money. The two concepts are similar, and play similar roles in different paradigms of physics.

Human consciousness consists of a multitude, of one-dimensional qualities, overlaid upon fields of spacetime. 

• Thus the human mind as an information system, is capable of modelling different spaces, such as what is experienced in real-time, what is remembered from the past, what is forecast in the future, what is imagined as hypothetical, what is resolved as emotional or spiritual, what is perceived as otherworldly, etc.
• The capacity to apperceive new experiences into one (1) field of spacetime does not in and of itself entail the capacity to apperceive new experiences into multiple (>1) fields of spacetime.
• However, the capacity to reflect upon the first field, indeed entails the capacity to apperceive multiple (>1) fields of spacetime, as these multiple fields are apperceived as being different states of the same field, structured in a higher dimension, at a point in time. 
• Simply put, for example, you cannot be mindful of the effects of kicking something, unless you model the future, and compare the future with the present on a moment-to-momeent basis, as kicking is executed.
• The one-dimensional qualities are simply known to most of us
• various colours, each being their own quality, with magnitudes of luminescence
• sound, being indisputably a mode tranmissible in one dimension of space, and one dimension of time
• smells, being disputably homomorphic with the above
• somatic sensations mapped to various nervous modalities such as pain, heat, cold, pressure, and vibration
• etc.
• These concepts have been widely studied as "phenomenology", in many traditions around the world, for thousands of years. 
• I got into it myself, via Kant of the European tradition, when I was about 14, from a book called Sophie's World, written by a Norwegian philosopher, recommended by a teacher at my school, which was run by the church, which I attended as a consequence of my family's occupation.

All of us inherit this apparatus with our genome, to varying degrees, again celebrated by the concept of neurodiversity.

Well all that is about time. Time is really about consciousness of the aforementioned qualities.

A personal reflection, which you may skip, as this was what I started writing before I wrote the other parts of this note : 

I grew up with middle-class privilege, which is to say that we did not have much money or power to exert dominance over our neighbours, but we had more than enough for survival beside them. My father did a first degree in science, fulfilled a work bond, then did further degrees in theology, after which he began his new job for a few hundred Malaysian Ringgit per month, in the early 1980s. He eventually retired in the 2010s as head of a large religious body, paid less than a school headmaster. But due to the education we received at home, I acquired a sense of adequacy from relatively few material inputs to my existence.

So in terms of money, I have always aimed low in life, relative to my peers from more commercial backgrounds. Yet I feel that I have been satisfied - though I wish to avoid comparisons of happiness, as it is not fundamentally realistic to communicate and compare happiness between people.

I have always thought of Malaysia as a poor country, while being aware that we have a high-decile position in the wealth of the world's citizens. This is a matter of picking your rules, as for some people "poor" means "bottom fifty percent", but for others, it means "bottom eighty-five percent", or even "bottom ninety-nine percent". Because of this, I have never thought of Malaysia as a place where it is most rewarding to spend time to make money. And given my lazy existence in Malaysia, I have not focused my time here on making money, but on studying. I am not sure if I will ever prioritise making money over acquiring information, but I look forward to finding out as I live my simple life.