Ok ok. Try it the other way. Say there was a nuclear holocaust and everything else died except you and a chimp..
No seriously. If you think about it, 'time' was probably invented thousands of years ago.. How many concepts do we carry on from then till now, without being updated ?
Here's my attempt. We basically group things into cycles. This moment of 'time' (10.26pm in my case) occurs again tomorrow. Not on the same date, but at the same time of day. Transpose that cycle into weeks & months. Years, is a running number only because we don't have any significant event to 'reset' the years.
I reckon that these cycles were established during the olden days... Ancient egypt had its sundial, and probably something else before. "Kimosabe, many moons have passed since you have darkened our land"
So they used the passing of the moon and phases to try and figure out when they should cut their crops and when their baby was due. So time was/is a record of cycles.
What do you think ? makes sense ? Do you feel better knowing your life is measured in cycles ? Here's the thing. What happens if you adjust those cycles ?
Say in the natural world, you're meant to live to 90. That's measured by 90 * 365 days and nights having passed by. On your first birthday, you go into a bubble ala Truman (from the Truman show). Day and night is simulated but instead of 24 hour cycles, we go on 36 hours, instead of having three meals a day, you have just 2.
Now as far as you're concerned, time takes on a whole different meaning from the outside world. Does your body adjust accordingly ? if you're a girl, do you hit puberty and child bearing age later than people in the outside world ?
I guess the question I'm getting at is do the cycles control our body ? If we have an 'internal clock' in us, can it be 'adjusted' ?
Hmmmm.. more useless stuff to think about...
Anyway, I'm going to forget about this now and get back to my scheduled life. :)
