Luigi Pavone

Consider the following two cases, A and B. In case A, a cube exists and, a few seconds later, a sphere exists, exhibiting a sequence of disappearance and appearance. In case B, by contrast, a cube and a sphere exist side by side. What distinguishes these two cases is the way in which the entities involved—the cube and the sphere—are organized in time and space. In case A, the cube and the sphere are temporally organized in such a way that they exhibit “dis/appearance”, whereas in case B they are spatially organized, and no such phenomenon occurs. The upshot is that temporal organization is dynamic, while spatial organization is static: time involves passage, whereas space does not. On this basis, temporal passage is defined as follows: dynamicity or “dis/appearance” of objects, which is a part of time but not of space. But what is the nature of temporal passage?