A Hasty Report From A Tearing Hurry

[Philosophy Now]

Raymond Tallis has a measured response to numbered seconds.

http://philosophynow.org/issues/90/A_Ha ... ring_Hurry

[mcevjp]

I enjoyed the piece, but it's not true that we humans have a monopoly on time measurement. Almost every living thing on earth has a "circadian clock" - biochemical machinery which synchronizes certain processes with the day/night cycle. Daisies famously open and close their petals in this way (http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/research/ ... daisy.html) but everything's at it, one way or another.