This.

Bill Nye is coming to UB! HA ownage! it's going to be f-ing epic.

I'm posting this off hand because I havent reviewed it in a while, but in my biopsychology class I was recently reading up on an individual who had had heart surgery and while having his blood circulated manually by a machine, the machine broke down and parts could not be replaced for several hours. While he managed to survive, this caused significant trauma to the centers of his brain acting on the conscious retention of human experience. The interesting thing about this however, was that he was in fact able to still retain the ability to learn things, but could not explicitly identify that he had ever learned them (via subconscious intuitive training). This of course means that his concept of time was completely skewed; and yet, he continued to function as an individual and quite proficiently too. The point I'm getting across here is that his concept of time is not a matter of some generalized scientific notion and that it is created by years of refined human thinking; time is just a product of our multilayer consciousness, analyzing the retention of an impression of a series of events (something the human brain has specialized itself for). While contextually this may make us a dominant species in that extended high detail memory increases our chances of survival significantly, what it fails to take into consideration is something fairly simplistic and spiritual in conceptual origin:

If it is one thing, it cannot be something else.

Which begs the question, what is perception of reality if retention and analysis is smaller?
It seems to me, that is a recipe for being more intuitive with the changes in ones own environment; perhaps that is why humanity fails to regulate itself and has become an ever spreading locus of consumption across our magnificent earth, instead of in harmony with it.

Then again, higher retention and analysis could be a recipe for greater levels of intuitive changes in ones environment, because of a greater capacity to accomodate for factors. Yet, the more one individual knows, the less magic there is in living and learning.

This post was edited by Xkorpyo on Apr 9 2009 01:24am

We aren't talking about time here, just the measurement of it. Eistein's theories rely upon observers, and for each observer measuring time, a different result is found, relative to any other observer. Eistein's theories are still intact, despite the greatest intellectual assault over the past 80+ years.

Quantum mechanics virtually allows for any scenario providing you don't test for that scenario, and so is useless for theorising about such things as time and gravity on a practical basis. However, wherever quantum mechanics can be tested, it is remarkably robust

This post was edited by jackspinner on Apr 10 2009 02:06am

time is moneeeyyyy