Guest guest Posted February 16, 2008 Report Share Posted February 16, 2008 Namaste All, Let's have a look at the concept of time and how it is attained. If you are a radical empiricist you will hold the opinion that all concepts are attained by the analysis of the raw data of sense experience. However the difficulty with this is that any experience whatever will involve the notion of before and after. Experience itself involves time in that it is given as tensed - I did, I am doing, I will do. It is clear then that experiencing presupposes that there be a sense of time. We can then reflect on this to produce Galilean, Einsteinian or Quantum theories. Animals have a sense of time without the mental capacities to develop a theory of it. VP says: " Since time, although it is colourless, is admitted to be cognised through the organs, even a continuous cognition has for its object particular moments that are not the objects of the preceding cognition; hence the definition does not fail to apply there. " I throw a stick and my dog rushes towards the spot where she believes it will fall, a future event. Time is demonstrated through the senses rather than the senses discovering time. Change or the awareness of change is time. The very fact of sensing itself even if the cognition is unvarying brings the sense of time. Concentration is applied effort over time. The existence of a biological body clock is well established. Humans kept underground without external cues will show Circadian rhythms of 23 to 25 hours of rest and wakefulness.cf : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm Best Wishes, Michael. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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