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Subject: Supporting my point


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Ben
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Date Posted: 01/20/04 10:05pm
In reply to: QUITTNER 's message, "Understanding time" on 01/20/04 11:54am

>As I see it, time is related to counting. You
>can count slowly or quickly, and time is just the
>ACCUMULATION of counts, with the time scale depending
>on the speed of counting, and with the "zero" of time
>being variable as required.
>..... The beginning of time was when counting became
>possible (one-celled organisms didn't know how to
>count, but counting was possible then), and time will
>stop when counting will no longer be possible.

...accentuating my point that time is something which exists in the human mind and not as an objective thing which can be "existed outside of."

Ben

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