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do those with a similar bearing fit together more? Or is it rather that the event belongs with its consequence? Natural experience knows the meaningfulness of all these types of relations, but the objectifying reification of nature primarily grasps only the last of them: the relation between an event and its consequence. Of course, temporal relations play themselves out within spatial relations, because time is, after all, an event in a space of possibilities. Spatial relations complicate experiences of simultaneity, bearing, and sequentiality enormously, and in particular they complicate the reasoned reified grasp of these experiences. Can simultaneity include events in distant places as well? How would one establish the measure of a maximum “allowed” distance during an encounter? Spatial proximity is clearly not needed for a shared direction. Nevertheless, we can only distinguish this shared direction once various consequences of events on similar bearings find themselves close together, or alternatively by increasing the measure, by stepping further back. But what does this “close together” actually mean? In what sense are distant events on similar bearings, mutually “distant” at all? They are, after all, close to each other in what is important, the direction of the struggle of nature. They are distanced “only” in objectivized space. We cannot, however, grasp such proximity in reified way, and usually we can’t experience it naturally either, not until the point when we suddenly perceive the consequences of these bearings in one visual field, in some encounter. And how distant can the consequences of some event be in order for us still to be able to experience them and understand them as consequences of that event? They certainly can be distant—that’s how consequences tend to work—but how can we distinguish that event in them from a distance and not confuse the consequences for distant echoes of a different event? Can any consequence be exclusively a consequence of one event? And how does the influence of an affecting event span spatial distance? Objectivizing reasoning answers that it’s through some movement in space, a movement that, in modernity, it explains as the diffusion of a change in a field. This answer also supplies a relatively straightforward relation expressing the maximum distance at which two things in a particular temporal range can “know” about each other, and hence be related by sequentiality, by action and effect. Sequentiality, however, poses a more interesting problem: is the sequential order of events already a manifestation of their action-and-consequence type of relationship? Seemingly not, at least a reifying interpretation doesn’t
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