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INTRODUCTION

Based on common sense and even science, it´s inferred that time doesn´t seem to exist by itself but, on the contrary, is intimately linked with all observed phenomena; It wouldn´t be a thing but the discontinuous relationship of a continuous context. It´s then necessary to resort to the analysis of phenomena to discover their true meaning; not coincidentally, this procedure is a process that also develops over time.

Life is made of a multiplicity of conscious and unconscious meanings that constitute the experience of existing, where the most important thing is found in a sense that, being decisive, isn´t directly observable. Without this sense, everyone's life at some point becomes unbearable because, in fact, it´s the cause of all evil; which are existential problems. We look for this sense because intuitively we know that it exists, and also that it´s the ultimate meaning and the one that serves as a reference as a starting point and support for all experience. A sense that due to its unique character, must be beyond all inconsistent and contradictory speculations, such as magic, miracle and even reason; these concepts, identified with superstition, religion and science-partially instrumented and essentially lost, like all ideologies. Attempts with various intentions, whose ultimate ends are not in the truth but in establishing themselves as a dominant belief; where only power seems to make sense - a power that death turns into a failed attempt.

There´s no greater problem for man than his way of existing and being in the world (He suffers from it and doesn´t understand it a lot), a place understood as previous, alien and external that contains everything, the area where everything that exists inhabits and moves; and that paradoxically, it appears different from the very thing it contains. But with equal right, man in his consciousness also contains imaginatively the totality of the sensible world; both are different and each in its own way, mutually contains the other. In one case as a material phenomenon and in the other about an ideal process, remaining to determine which´s the actual and which´s the symbolic. This hypothesis of a concrete and external world is already from the first moment, the result of a previous contradictory composition based on two fundamental aspects that, being necessary to justify themselves, belong to different principles such as space and time; especially because even being the foundation of the obvious, none of them is observable. But this is only the beginning of an existential problem that, being equal and different from the vital question, implies having to consider a relationship that mediates between a physical and a psychic nature from the same and unique experience; a situation that´s as effective as it´s incomprehensible and definitive. This conception of reality starts from an extensive problematic principle, about a world that from the outset doesn´t seem to have limits or measure but especially, because its study seems to be intuitively unfolded into three complementary and contradictory aspects; which´s at least an incongruity. Due to the sensory fact of its procedure, the context destined for interpretation needs the concurrence of the different; that is, of the psychic component. The first factor is a process, the second is an object and the third is the subject that gives an account and reason for everything that is being observed, it´s also what is thinking about all this; ideas that constitute with experience, the general meaning of their existence.

Understanding the difficulties that this problematic conceptual complexity entails and, knowing that even the evidence confuses us with the meaning of appearances, conditioning not only the conclusions but also the procedures, the methods are carefully examined used by common sense, traditions and science. This is done taking into account the ambiguities, contradictions and inconsistencies of conventional models; that as a whole describe and explain many things but in logical terms they justify little and nothing.