Eating Time to Taste Eternity: On the Metabolism of Experience
If we view our minds as storage units—archives where memories are filed away like documents in a cabinet—we believe the purpose of the mind is to retain the past.
But the kinetic model of consciousness suggests that the mind is not a storage unit; it is more like a digestive tract.
Every moment of waking life is a form of intake. A sunrise, breakfast, a vista— these are not merely events that happen to the subject; they are experiences that are consumed by the subject.
Consciousness tastes the moment, but it is the metabolic activity of the mind that assimilates it.
Therefore, the health of the psyche does not depend on what it experiences, but on how effectively it metabolizes what it experiences.
To understand the metabolism of experience, one must distinguish between the nutrient and the husk….