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Written 6 weeks after the date 9/11/2001TIMEWe know time not by what it is,but by what happens within it."Time will tell," and it does;but it speaks not of itself.Only of events, and of memories of events.Darwin drew diagrams of a solitary leafas it stirred upward and downward through the day."And doubtless, when swallows come in the spring,they act like clocks," said Descartes.Steel heated to redness, in time failsand suddenly lowers millions of poundsto impact like a pile driver on the floor below,which interrupts the fall, but in the interruption,amplifies the weight to trillions, and in turn fails.Which interrupts the interruption,creating a vertical pendulum, a keeper of time,relentless as it collapses.Time then continues after, as it had before.But never the same.For we know time not by what it is,but by what happens within it.Copyright 2001, 2008 Albert G Fonda Pile-driver insight from my petroleum engineer son Mark (Written 10/26/01, 8:05 to 8:15 AM; modified August 21, 2008 to generalize the failure mode)Darwin and Descartes from Jonathan Weiner, in "Time, Love, Memory" (Knopf, 1999)An addendum: As uploaded by Galen Strawson to University of British Columbia: EVOLUTIONARY NATURALISM AND THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM by Roy Wood Sellars, Open Court 1922, p. 294-5:Why Has Mind Been Excluded from the Organism?- In our brief study of the historical development of parallelism, we saw some of the reasons why mind has been excluded from the organism. We must now examine them more analytically. The first reason may be called epistemological. The physical world is the object of scientific knowledge, while consciousness is the seat and means of knowledge of it. This contrast is readily taken to be an ontological contrast. I presume that this interpretation is made easier by the tendency to assume that the very stuff of the physical world is given in perception and in valid conception. Scientific realism takes the form of an intellectual intuition of the very substance of physical things. Not all scientists are as naive as this but many are. Thus a naive epistemology is the inevitable generator of a naive dualism. Two different realms seem spread out before the comparing gaze of man. Hence, to say that the organism has anything in common with consciousness is like saying that black is white. The difference is held to be inspectional in type. The dualism suggested in this fashion is supplemented by a logical motive. The categories which develop in our knowledge of the physical world are in many respects not identical with those which characterize consciousness. I presume that the one striking exception generally admitted is time; and Bergson denies even this identity. For him the physical world contains simultaneity only, while true time is a mark of mind. Hence these two generic objects of thought cannot be identical. Consciousness is not simply the physical world, and the physical world is not simply consciousness. It is natural, then, for the logical motive which shows a disparity to be interpreted along the lines of prepossessions awakened by the epistemological motive. It is forgotten that there are other possible existential relations besides simple identity.Re Bergson also Ask.com, also Henri Bergson's The Creative Mind - Angelfire Page on angelfire.com Real time is continuous and indivisible. Mathematical time ... According to Bergson, real time cannot be analyzed mathematically. ... In order to try to understand the flow of time, the intellect forms concepts of time as consisting of defined moments or intervals. But to try to intellectualize the experience of duration is to falsify it.