ABSTRACT
How is time represented at all levels of the living? The flow of time, parsed by events is captured at all levels of the living, from the microcellular to the macrofunctioning of the whole organism. From the basic biological representational process of transduction that transform physical energy of the real real into nerve impulses, we build more abstract representations of time. Ancestral landscaping sculptures like Stonehenge capture the passage of time with a fixed, static representation laying on a field facing the sky. Music may be viewed as the purest, most abstract representation of our experience of time and duration, in the same way that numbers can be viewed as our purest, most-abstract representation of our experience of quantity.
