We all are living beings.
The animal Kingdom on land with all his creatures,all the plants and trees,the fish in the oceans and all the other living creatures on Earth
including the Humans have something in common: Time.
The question is how they feel time,is any difference in the level of perception?
TextThe research team, led by Roberts, designed an experiment in which rats visited the ‘arms’ of a maze at different times of day. Some arms
contained moderately desirable food pellets, and one arm contained a highly desirable piece of cheese. Rats were later returned to the maze with the
cheese removed on certain trials and with the cheese replaced with a pellet on others. Three groups of rats were tested in the research using three
varying cues: when, how long ago or when plus how long ago. Only the cue of "how long ago food was encountered" was used successfully by the rats.
These results, the researchers say, suggest that episodic-like memory in rats is qualitatively different from human episodic memory, which involves
retention of the point in past time when an event occurred. “The rats remember whether they did something, such as hoarded food a few hours or five
days ago,” explained Roberts. “The more time that has passed, the weaker the memory may be. Rats may learn to follow different courses of action
using weak and strong memory traces as cues, thus responding differently depending on how long ago an event occurred. However, they do not remember
that the event occurred at a specific point in past time.” Previous studies have suggested that rats and scrub jays (a relative of the crow and the
blue jay) appear to remember storing or discovering various foods, but it hasn’t been clear whether the animals were remembering exactly when these
events happened or how much time had elapsed. “This research,” said Roberts, “supports the theory I introduced that animals are stuck in time,
with no sense of time extending into the past or future.”
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There for if we feel the time different from a perspective of different species then there must be a difference between the biological time and real
time.
We measure our time reported to our system of reference and give him measure, the second,minute ,hour,day..and so on.
The difference between the biological time and real time depends of the time lapse of every living creature.
Still the biological clock even to humans is different from from the way they measure time.
TextThe fact that we humans possess a ‘biological clock’ is well known. During the night our body works differently from the daytime: we need
sleep, at a certain moment it is nearly impossible to stay awake. Accidents happen very often in late night or early morning, a time at which a human
being should be sleeping (Chernobyl, Exxon Valdez, etc). That fever is at its highest during the late afternoon is well known, but especially since
more and more people make journeys, often in short time over a long distance, many of us experience their clocks in the shape of ‘jetlag’, which
occurs because the different clocks of our body react differently. It can last a week before they work again in tune. We have a lot of different
clocks in our body, possibly even one in every cell. The problems people experience with jetlag have stimulated the development of chronobiology. Also
in connection with space travel much research is being done in this field: how will the body manage when it does not experience the earthly
day-night-rhythm for years?
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glimmerveen.nl...
TextHuman beings, plants and animals have a biological clock and it tells each plant, human and animal when to eat, sleep and when to wake up.
Human beings, plants and animals have a biological clock and it tells each plant, human and animal when to eat, sleep and when to wake up. In addition
to this, we are able to reset this clock to fit in more usefully with our everyday life. Do you wake up early on weekends even if you don't want to?
Have you ever suffered from jet lag? If so, you are probably feeling the effects of one or more of the so called biological clocks within your body.
The understanding of these clocks can be very helpful to you, for by doing so you may be able to learn to "set" them to wake up at a prearranged
time, remind you of appointments or even help you to return to your car before the time expires on your parking meter. If someone's daily biological
clock runs fast, the person will tend to get sleepy early in the evening, but will be able to wake up in the morning with little difficulty. Exposure
to the day/night cycle of the outside world will help him or her to reset his biological clock each day- humans being able to do this more easily than
animals- otherwise he would go to bed earlier and get up earlier and earlier each day. Because of this need to readjust his internal clock, he is
continually under pressure from the external world.
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TextThe fact that the objectively real, functional time is formed as a result of consistent change of concrete material object states can be
illustrated on an example of a mollusk time reflex formation: “The course of the experiments is as follows: the mollusk receives shocks with
low-power current every five minutes. After shock it hides in a shell for a short while and then continues its motion. After the shocks stop the
mollusk continues to hide in a shell every five minutes. It proves the availability of time system”3. In this connection we remark first of all that
this example is not a proof of the mollusk’s astronomic time counting system, as there is no such time in nature. The mollusk hides in a shell every
five minutes not due to the availability of counting systems of postulated nonexistent time in nature but because every five minutes consistent change
of definite, strictly identical number of states takes place in the mollusk’s organism. As a result the own time of mollusk is formed in which it
lives, exists.
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www.chronos.msu.ru...
What do you think is the difference between the biological time and real time?