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A Hasty Report From A Tearing Hurry
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:16 pm
by Philosophy Now
Raymond Tallis has a measured response to numbered seconds.
http://philosophynow.org/issues/90/A_Ha ... ring_Hurry
Re: A Hasty Report From A Tearing Hurry
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:14 pm
by 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.