Posted by dj on February 3, 2001, at 13:08:29
In reply to time, posted by dennis on February 2, 2001, at 19:34:09
> Everything in the world has been defined except for time, everything has a relationship with something else, but time stands alone.
> right?Wrong!
Lots has been written and lots of exploration, exposition and comparisms have been done. Check out time in your library database and if you can find a copy read: "Winston Churchill's Afternoon Nap: A Wide-Awake Inquiry into the Human Nature of Time" by Jeremy Campbell as well as his "Grammatical Man".
If the former he explores, amongst other things, the biochemical clocks which we possess and which can get out of synch via depression. In Chapter 11 'Time and the Biological Brain' he writes in the first paragraph: "...a disorder of mood and mental state, such as depression, and the impairment of a physiological process, such as sleep, may have a common basis in the disruption of circadian timing systems and may be treated with a drug that sends the nervous system a message about time."
Something to ponder...
dj
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