Can you consider a moment in your life to be a vector?

charlie

Real Bebopper
Well, for something to be a vector, regarding Linear Algebra, it need hold 2 properties:
  1. Closed under addition
  2. closed under scalar multiplication
So what is it to add a moment to another, and what is it to scalar multiply a moment.


In this regard, I appreciate J.W. Dunne's efforts to model a person's field of observation.

Consider:
- perhaps a moment could be a point in time that you experience, to any degree ( it is then necessary to express to what degree a moment could be modeled)
- to "multiply" a moment by a scalar would be simply to expand or shrink the field (e.g. to positively/negatively scale a moment would increase/decrease the radius of observation around the observer)
- to add 2 moments would be to consider the sum of the two moments (i.e. all that was within each moment observed). Practically this may be the moment that a person's body is in, and then the moment that a person's mind is observing.
 
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