Thread: Seriousness The concept of 'TIME'
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Old 08-21-2010, 04:28 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate View Post
Hasn't anyone stopped to consider the idea that time is a uniquely human invention? It's in our nature to measure things; it's how we orient ourselves in the universe. We need to know "when" something happened--or will happen--therefore we need a scale on which to place events relative (there's that word again) to each other.
I don't understand why the idea of time would be 'uniquely human', since other species share the same needs. A squirrel buries nuts knowing they will be there in the future.

I agree the scales use to measure stuff are human inventions - but I don't think the stuff is.

As the American scientist John Wheeler pointed out, time is what stops everything happening at once.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/bigquestions/s460740.htm

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