The existence of Time and Space cannot be understood in the same way as in which an

object exists. In Kant’s view, human cognition does not perceive space or time in terms of
concrete experience. That is to say, the object time or the object space would not make
sense. Rather, space and time are previous conditions of all experience. Kant is not saying
that space and time are imaginary entities, but the natural configuration of mind that
enables experience. In other words, we perceive the shape, the area, the volume, the
extent, and the figure of determined stimuli. Through time, our mind can perceive the
movement and the change of objects. Thus, what we normally perceive depends more on
the natural configuration of the human mind than in objects themselves. It might be then
meaningless to say that space is an object because objects appear rather within space.
For instance, the colors, the form, the beauty, the height of a castle takes place within
space and not the other way around. This idea leads us to the problem of subjectivism,
which I would better call perspectivism. Reality exists just insofar as there is a human
perspective that makes sense of that world.
In this regard, the main question would be how helpful or detrimental is technology when
making sense of surroundings? Eskimos have never required any technological device to
differentiate 11 degrees of white in the snow. At this point, we can remark that our
language is too narrow to distinguish those degrees. There is no need to organize space in
such a way. Therefore, we are not able to perceive 11 types of snow. Maybe we do not
even think about it. Snow is for us the signal of a new season, of cold, of the opportunity
to build snowmen. Snow is fun. Yi-fu Tuan pose an interesting question: in what ways do
people attach meaning to and organize space and place? I think that he refers in general
terms to the human creations in history, for instance, the modern cities. But also, he
might refer to those places that became valuable, precious, and important. Those places
exist above all in our long-term memory. Perhaps we might pose the question of Yi-Fu
Tuan upside down. How is that places cannot be forgotten? The remembrance of my
grandmother’s courtyard became different through my ages. When I was a kid, I looked at
it as an immense forest with animals and bugs. I was afraid of going out. If I had gotten
lost in the hills, I would have never come back home. Nonetheless, the vastness of the
courtyard made me feel free and I enjoyed the landscape of an infinity sky. There were no
buildings, no cars, no smog. I could even smell the salty air of the beaches. Whereas I feel
locked in the prisons of concrete in cities. I do not have the feeling of freedom that nature
offers to beholders.
In the next little essay, I will attend to elaborate on the possible changes that digital
technologies provoke in the creation of valuable remembrances.