If time is an invention of man, then aren't we all non existent?

Answer 1

Time isn't an invention of man. Methods for measuring time and the measurements themselves (years, months, days, hours, seconds) are.

Answer 2

Time, as in calculated time, is an invention of humans, but that does not mean that actual time does not pass.

This question is similar to the question, "If a tree falls and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?" The answer is of course it makes a sound, human ears are not necessary for sound to occur.

The Universe existed well before humans created a clock. The clock is purely a human form of identifying when events occur. Without a clock, the events still occur, but it is not as easy for us humans to place them.

I went on a church retreat, where the counselors told us to put away our watches for the entire retreat. My girlfriend at the time and I were walking around and she said, "How will we know when to go to the cafeteria to eat?"

I showed her that the sun will be directly overhead at lunch time and just midway in the western horizon at dinner time. We did not miss a meal and in fact we were right on time.

Before the Nineteen hundreds alarm clocks did not exist and people woke up to the sunlight. This was good for mornings, but they worked until it started to get dark, so they actually worked longer "hours", yet most people knew very little about time.

Perhaps we would all be better off without human time. We all could go back to natural time.

Take care,
Troy

Answer 3

Time is not the invention of man. The measurement of time is. Time would pass whether it were measured or not, whether we existed or not. The difficulty with being human is we live inside time, knowing that ultimately our time will run out. This tends to make us behave in very silly ways.

Answer 4

Time has got nothing to do with existance. We can exist without time - we just cannot be a certain age without time.
The problem you have raised however is that of existance in the whole. We only exist because we believe we exist. "I think therefore I am" is a famous quote but just because we think it doesn't mean we exist.

You should read some Jean-Paul Satre - a French Philiosophist, he will answer many of your questions.

Answer 5

Depends on how existential you want to get. Time is not a human invention. Time goes on no matter how much we want to change that. It does, however, only "exist" for us because we note it, feel its passage, see its effects - recognize the evidence of its existence. More than anything, it exists for us because we language it. It is "time" (or whatever language we use) because we say it is.

Answer 6

It's not an invention of man! Everyone shall taste the death! No invention can stop your death, so that means time is out of your control, something that belongs to one of the creations of Allah.

Answer 7

actually time was never an invention of man. in the book of genesis it describes god creating the sun and moon to govern night and day. night and day being times of the day. later it describes the SEVEN DAY WEEK which is increments of the sun rising and setting seven times within that period. more increments of time. we came up with the increments of 24 hours in a day because that is how long it took for the sun to set and rise again hence the 24 hour cycle in a day. man has attempted and failed at trying to change the seven day week several times because no other incrementation fits in with the 365.25 day year. they have tried a 10 day week that failed because of the overworking of themselves and their pack animals

Answer 8

Time is not an invention of man. DESIGNATIONS of time are an invention of man.

Answer 9

Just our limited experience of time being linear is a human concept. Time is real. I thought I didn't exist once, till I forgot to pay my tax bill. They knew where to find me.

Answer 10

Time is recognition of patterns applied to other things. So, no. I'm actually non existent because it's inhumane otherwise.