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While we have come up with an organized way to tell time from one moment to the next, its likely true that people since the beginning of time, when we were nomadic travelers, used the sun, moon and stars to tell time as well as weather patterns. Time keeping is an integral part of planning and planting crops, telling when children will be conceived and bore, when animals will be mating, when to hunt or gather. Time is a percieved way to keep track of events from one event to the next, prior to time keeping using a clock, or even a sundial, we tracked time in moon phases, lunar time. And in seasonal changes.
Time is a percieved way to keep track of events from one event to the next, prior to time keeping using a clock, or even a sundial, we tracked time in moon phases, lunar time. And in seasonal changes.
True, but I'll bet that the greatest difference between modern man and the ancients is that we find it completely natural to only percieve time in a linear fashion while the ancients saw it as a (natural) cycle.
Originally Posted by Dave5150 True, but I'll bet that the greatest difference between modern man and the ancients is that we find it completely natural to only percieve time in a linear fashion while the ancients saw it as a (natural) cycle.
Absolutely and I think that people are at a loss when only thinking of time in a linear fashion. Everything in life is cyclical.
The self's perception of present and past, with the capacity to (only) conceive of a future.
Good answer. However it raises the question: is time just a human convention like language and art? Or is it a thing that exists as a natural law even if we didn't - like gravity and valency. Or is it something that may be a human convention - as you say, June - for recording and measuring the rate of change of things and progress of events, but can be affected by speed, gravity and mass. When time gets distorted as we get sucked into a black hole, is time like a sea getting shaped and distorted, together with everything in it, as it vanishes into a vortex, or is it just the effects of gravity on matter that seems to alter a 'thing' called time?
Is time just gravity and relativity's apparent changes of time just that - distortions of gravity? Could be an interesting thread.
The self's perception of present and past, with the capacity to (only) conceive of a future.
Isn't that just awareness?
I doubt a coma-patient would be able to perceive time.
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Is time just gravity and relativity's apparent changes of time just that - distortions of gravity? Could be an interesting thread.
Wasn't time relative?
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True, but I'll bet that the greatest difference between modern man and the ancients is that we find it completely natural to only percieve time in a linear fashion while the ancients saw it as a (natural) cycle.
Wasn't time relative?
