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In article <1992Sep30.120309.9782@sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
>In article <1992Sep30.073018.13232@nuscc.nus.sg> matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Mcinnes B T (Dr)) writes:
>
>>I am holding in my hand a baloney sandwich. I hereby declare that this
>>is an instance of a clock. Now I note that as the baloney sandwich
>>decreases, so does my hunger. Since time is what a clock measures, I
>>deduce that: Time is hunger.
>
>An interesting clock.  And you're right: numerous experiments have
>shown that psychological time is closely correlated with metabolic
>rate.  If you shut people up in caves, for instance, their circadien
>rhythm will drift, and after a week or so they will indeed start
>measuring time in terms of hunger, or fatigue.

1. How do these arguments distinguish time from space?  People talk in
terms of "an hour's drive away," and "five car-lengths".  These
properties you attribute to time would seem to apply to just about any
commonly perceived variable.

2. The velocity of light is exactly 299792458 m/sec (an integer, God
must exist after all).  Is it still an integer when time is measured in
meters per baloney sandwich consumed by Matt?  How can you even be sure
that Matt consumes at a rational speed?

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