Oh, I’m betting on a combination there. :-"
From a prior post:
In reference to God, there is the general behavior or principle called “God” and there is the actual concurrent situation called “God”. The concurrent situation throughout the entire universe is always enacting the general principle called “God”. Therefore that general principle must physically exist at all times and in all locations throughout the entire universe. That conclusion can’t be rationally avoided.
So whether a principle is merely a general description or an actual behavioral causation depends upon exactly which principle is being discussed.
There are times when a concept or an abstract principle is being physically enacted. During those times, the meta-concept and the physically real unite. God is one example of the union of the physical reality of God and the meta-concept of God. The Conceptual/Divine Realm, though a separate category, is not entirely exclusive of physical objects.
Things like perfect circles or squares cannot manifest in physical form, so they must always remain isolated in the Conceptual Realm. But I can’t think of anything physical that cannot be represented also in the Conceptual Realm.
A memory could then be:
[a combination of metaobjects] that when manifest as [a combination of physical objects]
are called NOW AKA the PRESENT.
Would you agree that a memory is a combination of metaobjects? Only when they are manifest as a combination of physical objects are they called NOW AKA the PRESENT. Memories exist in the metaspace. Memories can only exist from an infinitesimal moment before the present and extend back in time.I am suggesting that at “no time” are the “meta” and the “physical” the same - the meta and the physical are asymmetrical.
“For anything to physically exist, it must have physical affect. And anything that has physical affect, physically exists.”
When only the memory of something that physically existed is left: the laws of conservation kick in on the physical but the meta keeps growing unless: the meta universe is capable of forgetting. Memory and history are fundamentally the same thing.
For the meta and the physical to be concurrent then the meta and the physical must have concurrent entropy.
The concept of a “circular shape” is not an idealized concept. A circular shape can be represented in the physical because there are no precise specifications beyond physical capability. But the circular shape concept and the physical circular shape might only stay united for a short period. The concept never changes, but the physical shape might deviate too far away from circular to say that it represents a circular shape any longer.
So the meta realm can “touch” the physical realm as ideas are temporarily manifest in physical form. During those moments, the concept and the physical are the same. But after a while, the physical is likely to drift away and no long be “in contact with” (no longer represent) the never changing concept.
Where do the memories actually go? Where is history now? What is the past? et cetera.
Leads me to similar questions regarding the present and future. All possible possibilities must already exist in the metaspace.
On the other hand:
For anything to exist, it must have affect. Meta or physical.
Including memories.
Required here is a “balancing effect” of potential “inverse proportions” or further explanation.
I’m not certain what it is that you are referring to as a “memory”. To me, a memory is merely the residue of a perception. It has physical existence in that it affects the physical brain and mind. But with every physical anything, there is also an associated concept. The concept always remains the same concept, but the physical memory eventually falls to entropy.
There is a real history, a perceived history, and proposed history. They are seldom the same. The actual past does not physically exist, rather the past forms a residue that is the present as the present forms a residue to become the future.
As known among tank and bulldozer pilots, “Mind carefully the path you make by the path you take.”
In everything you do, you are forming the future and displacing the past.