Replying to LO17676 Lon Badgett wrote:
>The simplest answer is that time is an unalterable constant which slips
>past at the same rate for all men. A minute lost is a minute lost
>forever because the clock only runs in one direction. In this sense,
>there is no way we CAN manage time. What we can do is to manage our
>outlook or productive use of time.
This reminds me of a distinction I ran across years ago made, as I
recall, by Henri Bergson. He distinguished between "time" and
"duration." If it was, indeed, Bergson, he referred to time as you and
Doc have in this thread, which I liken to At's recollection of
Eddington's phrase "(increase in) entropy is the arrow of time."
Bergson distinguished "duration" as our experience of time.
I often think of duration in the context of working in different
cultural settings. I like the way the concept duration implies a
relation with time that induces in me questions about awareness. This,
I think, in contrast to "management of time," and "productive use of
time," phrases that seem not to question implicit cultural, task
oriented assumptions.
Would the terms time and duration constitute a force-flux pair?
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