"What then is time?
If no one asks me, I know; if I want to explain it to a questioner, I do not know...we measure times.
But how can we measure what does not exist?
The past is no longer, the future is not yet. And what of the present? The present has not duration...in order that we may compare a short and a long syllable, both must have died away. Thus, I do not measure the syllables themselves, but the images of the two tones in my memory...
thus when I measure time, I measure impressions,
modifications of consciousness".
Saint Augustin.
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