This exhibition features a new
spatialization of Sala's The Present Moment (in B - flat)(2014) and The Present Moment (in D)(2014), in which he rearranges Arnold Schoenberg's «Verklärte Nacht» [Transfigured Night](1899) to create the sense that individual notes, abstracted from the composition, travel freely throughout the gallery before accumulating and playing in repetition as if trapped in a spatial impasse.
Improved
spatialization of loot chest audio by increasing the audio volume if you're aiming at them.
The spatialization of time (with fantasies of time travel is a familiar way this mistake is found in the philosophy of science as well as popular culture.
The more troubling problem is whether causal determinism entails
the spatialization of time.
Bergson saw, I think rightly, that
the spatialization of time loses time, except as an appearance to consciousness.
It appears that the fallacy of
spatialization of time is committed by young children and — quite a number of philosophers!
As Capek shows, determinism, and with it reductionism generally, has followed from
the spatialization of time, a spatialization still too readily applied in our sciences.
This means that it is far more accurate to characterize Minkowski's fusion of space with time as a temporalization or dynamization of space than as
a spatialization of time.
Interestingly enough, Whitehead arrives at the notion of the fallacy of misplaced concreteness through his reading of Bergson's critique of simple location and
the spatialization of things (SMW 50), a critique also familiar to Derrida (MP 37; 227).
Whitehead «deconstructs» the modern fallacy of simple location and
the spatialization of reality, thus critiquing the representational assumptions of philosophy.
The spatialization of the things a mind is thinking about and the actual concrete process by which a mind does what it does have to be kept distinct, and yet the process of conscious thinking does give rise to the product, i.e., thought.
The upshot of Bergson's critique of
the spatialization of time is, then, very similar to James's critique of the associationists.
He agrees with Bergson that any kind of
spatialization of time eliminates effectively time itself, i.e., genuine succession.
In Whitehead's view «the extensiveness of space is really
the spatialization of extension; and the extensiveness of time is really the temporalization of extension (PR 289 / 442).
Brightman is very cautious about using analogies in speaking about God, particularly if they involve
spatializations of the relations.
Not exact matches
Let me mention at least three instances
of distorting
spatialization.
The third instance
of vicious
spatialization is merely another form
of the previous one: the belief that every temporal process consists
of a dense succession
of durationless instants in the same sense as a geometrical line consists
of dense continuum
of dimensionless points.
Bergson's great merit, still not sufficiently appreciated and understood, was to show how seriously «the fallacy
of spatialization» prevents us from grasping the authentic nature
of time.
Whitehead's mature statement on the matter
of whether
spatialization is a sort
of falsification seems to equate all merely partial accounts
of reality (e.g.,
spatializations) with distortions.
And this point is also relevant to the charge made by Hartshorne and others that, unlike Whitehead, Bergson's attachment in continuity leads him unwittingly to deny any definite units
of reality.31 And second, Whitehead does hold that
spatialization, such as conceptualization and quantification require, falsifies experience.
In fact, Bergson and Whitehead have very similar orientations and attitudes towards the activity
of spatialization.
Therefore, in light
of this and Gunter's arguments, I see no irreconcilable, or even significant difference between Whitehead and Bergson on the point raised by Northrop regarding
spatialization and distortion.
If Whitehead had been cognizant
of this he would have realized that Bergson does not condemn the intellect wholesale, nor the activity
of spatialization.
Second is the affirmation
of Bergson's charge that
spatialization is a partialization
of experience.
This brings us to the second problem with Northrop's claim that Whitehead and Bergson differ on the matter
of whether
spatialization constitutes a distortion
of our experience.
Bergson and Whitehead are both fallibilists, who choose descriptive metaphysics over prescriptive or transcendental metaphysics, and if there is a disagreement between them on the question
of how
spatialization distorts our experience, it is a difference
of degree, not
of kind.
Northrop observed such a confluence, and held that Whitehead and Berg - son differed only on one major point
of doctrine: he alleges that, for Bergson,
spatialization in science constitutes a falsification
of experience, while he thinks this is not the case for Whitehead.30 There are two problems with this claim by Northrop.
Spatialization allows for the distinguishing
of concepts and percepts presupposed by the intellect.
This is to say that even though it comes about through the distortion
of spatialization that conceptualization forces on reality, this conceptualization and the very tension it generates are integral to reality as a whole.
Bergson is cited several times in a sympathetic but nonessential fashion, in connection with such concepts as «intuition, «canalization,» and «
spatialization,» all
of which refer to the characteristics
of thought and experience, rather than to evolution or to Bergson's wider evolutionary cosmology.
Children gradually realize that their confusions
of time with spatial trajectory contradicts their own experience — sensory and, especially, introspective — and they give up
spatialization; philosophers, while they are fully aware
of the same contradiction, retain
spatialization and deny experience — and are even proud
of it!
The question why the fallacy
of spatialization does not entirely disappear with childhood would require another paper.
The records
of these three meetings strongly suggest — I do not say, demonstrate — this about the general outlook
of the young mathematician Whitehead: he had a positive attitude toward change, tension, the multifariousness
of things and qualities; his hackles rose over the notion
of unrelieved uniformity; and he rejected Democritus's «
spatialization»
of change.
Most
of his pieces from the 40s on are named Spatial Concept, adapted from his theory
of «
spatialization.»