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Crystals?

• lngnmn 10y ago
  Sure. But according to some crummy philosophy, time as phenomena does not exist, because it requires an observer. The simplest example would be how life (at the level of molecular biology, proteins) uses only pattern-matching but no counting, binding-sites and concentration-based regulations, but no counters. Never. Because a counting requires an observer. But molecular biology precedes any consciousness, so, no counting or numbers. Only pattern matching of physical shapes, compound structures. (Precedes here means that in a whole process of evolution of life it some patterns emerged prior to others). Same holds for time. The notion of time, like counting, requires a consciousness. Like any other abstraction. But, of course, who studies philosophy in the age of hipsters? So lets ask a much simpler question: what exactly replicable experiment proves the existence of time as an independent phenomena (independent of any physical process, the phenomena-in-itself), so any goddamn crystals could exist?
  • pazimzadeh 10y ago
    Are you sure? If I remember correctly, glycosylation/mannosylation of folding proteins acts as a timer giving the protein some amount of chances to fold properly before being discarded. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15950873 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15950873
    • lngnmn 10y ago
      Nonexistence of time is a fundamental principle, which helps to prune out lots of nonsensical dogmatic hipster's pseudo-science. It is like an ancient hack - to see things as they are one have to remove an observer. One could hack physics this way. It has lots of philosophical implications, when one leans to recognize the fundamental difference between what is and chimeras (or memes) created by mind. Time is one such meme. Numbers is another.