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From: mjs14@unix.brighton.ac.uk (shute)
Subject: Re: Time is a human concept (was Re: Reality as a Hologram (Was Re: Discriminative Wisdom))
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In article <3870qp$hm@scunix2.harvard.edu> mcirvin@scws39.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin) writes:
>Of course, I am talking about *physical* time here, the thing that
>determines the relative rates of physical processes.  *Subjective*
>time is more complicated and probably depends on all kinds of things,
>but if you think that experience is somehow related to a physical
>process in the brain (I do), then you would probably agree that some
>kind of relationship between the two can be inferred

Always keen to tie together two unrelated threads
in a newsgroup :-) I wondered if it was worth pointing to
the "A timeline for the history of life in the universe" figure
on page 22 of the October issue of Scientific American.
The x-axis seems to use a scale that expands and contracts (between linear
and logarithmic??) so that interesting events are roughly equally spaced.

Is this an illustration of a more general principle? (e.g. how the brain
routinely views time?)

(Just my thoughts before going down for lunch!  Please consider them to be
qualified with three-quarters of a smiley .-)
-- 

Malcolm SHUTE.         (The AM Mollusc:   v_@_ )        Disclaimer: all

