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Spatiotemporal locations - Perspective by Lorenzo

I'm a graduate student in Linguistics and stumbled across this in a reading in advanced Semantics, which ties in a lot with philosophy. There were too many Lost tie ins, and things to chew on for me not to share it. Not really a theory, but maybe other people can create some more tie-ins.

This was in another unpublished paper which is talking about Casati's work on the properties of everyday objects and the belief that two objects can't share the smae spatiotemporal location.

From Casati, Roberto (2004). Shadows. Unlocking the secrets from Plato to our time. New York: Vintage books. page 42. (I know, creepy)

"The world of normal experience is worse than a zoo: it's a jungle hiding metaphysically suspect creatures... Shadows, which are always in view, do odd things that strike the popular fancy, buy they also do even odder things that give us food for thought.

For one thing, shadows are reciprocally penetrable; two shadows (made by two separate lights) can occupy the same space without bothering one another. Or a shadow can split up and still be the same shadow even if its pieces occupy spaces that are not attached; the shadow of a statue can fall partly on the ground and partly on the table the statue stands on.

Two distinct shadows can unite and give the impression of a single shadow while still remaining distinct: the part of the statue's shadow that lies on the ground, but even without a dividing line they are separate shadows. And if we turn off the light and then turn it on again, we can't be sure of getting the same shadow as before.

Rocks (and all other material things) serve as our models for things that behave "well"; certainly they behave very differently from shadows: two rocks cannot occupy the same space, and a rock is no longer a rock if we smash it to pieces. If we meld two rocks together we create a new, third rock, and the other two disappear. A rock seems to move through space in a continuous manner. If we leave a rock somewhere, we come back to find it in the same place, and if we cannot find it, we know that's because someone moved it"

- I was just blown away by this. Replace rock in the last paragraph with Island, and we might have a perspective as to why the island is so crazy, i.e. a ship in the middle. The island could be a bunch of different time lines, or islands, that have been fused together, from the different spatio-temporal times.

As for the shadow stuff. I'm still scratching my head. Would love to hear other peoples thoughts.

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