Wednesday, May 05, 2021

Evolution of Experience

In the writing of any book, I would want to preface it by noting that whatever I write or say is a function of my unique experience.   

It is also important to note that my unique experience is always in a context of one kind or another — that particular experience (of mine) is somehow related to the experience of those around me.  And, of course, the combination of what amounts to be a collective experience is related to the experience of that which came before it.   In other words, it too is the experience of another group of people proximate to the experience of any collective group of people around and before it...and further and further out and back it all goes.  

By implication then, it will also be related to the one which comes after it.  If it works backwards, then it works forwards.  Or, put differently, it always is moving forward — my experience, influenced by a collective one, is both from something and to something.

What does this then infer?  An unavoidable question to me is how this experience evolves with each changing version of it?  Does any part of it remain kind of constant, even as context changes?  If so, how so the two realities relate to each other?