Thursday, November 29, 2007
time
how do you define something that only exists in your head? time exists when we want it to, and ceases when we don't. man created a way to document the past and plan the future. there are methods of telling time, natural and man made, on which people rely. some are a slave to time and others ignore it. there are the ones who "make the most of it" but ultimately it's what you make it.
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Surely time can be "what one makes it". Our experience of time may be something imposed or something created individually, but there are certain common experiences which do define time "naturally". The main example of this would be the alternation of the seasons, the cycles of the moon, and more immediately (for those in a coastal area) the tides and (for pretty much everyone) day and night.
The circadian rhythm is also difficult to escape, although it is apparently determined to some degree by light, as people who spend a long time in caves, for example, find the circadian rhythm is disrupted.
But this has very little to do with hours, minutes, seconds.
Our individual bodies determine much of our experience of time, as does our sense of interest: "time flies when you're having fun".
It is also possible to extend one's sensitivity to time. Musicians are a perhaps obvious example of people who must cultivate a sense of time.
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