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Originally Posted by The_FD
I would have a slightly different point of view...
Time has not been invented, it has been discovered. Which make a huge difference.
By that I mean that what is conceptual is how we use to name and count time. Not the time itself.
Here is an example: even if humans were not existing, the Sun would have a certain rotating velocity and the light a certain speed and so on. We would not be here to measure and record how fast it is but nevertheless the time and the speed would exist.
So time is not conceptual but is physic constitutive existing thing.
What is a human point of view is how to name it and how to measure and count it
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I think the differences you two are talking about amount to semantics. "Time" as defined by pluiepoco is like our yard stick. We in America use inches, foot, etc., while others use the metric system. "Time" as a human concept is just such a measuring system.
But "real time" consists only of revolutions of the earth, the earth revolving around the sun, etc. This is what in fact happens. The earth revolves. We are simply measuring the "time" it takes for the earth to make one revolution, for example, and calling it a day. Our "time" measurements aren't exact either, as is evident in leap years. We simply use measurements that are easily "translated" by the general population.
Without us here, the earth would simply revolve. "Time" would not exist. Revolutions of the earth would exist. "Time" is our own construct.