http://www.technologyreview.com/view/513781/moores-law-and-the-origin-of-life/

∞ There are presumptions here I mistrust, but I know that life is older than Earth, even if it began here, because life… can compress time into biological and relational development in more than a single linear way…

…life and time are intimately and inextricably intertwined, and the ways we ordinarily think about these topics are extremely confused. Just as a simple example: 7 billion humans traveling around the sun ‘1 revolution’ cannot be equivalent to ‘1 year’. It is (at least) 7 billion human life-years. This is half the ‘age of the universe’… happening over 12 months of ‘flat’ earth time. What, we might ask, is time … to the 30 trillion bacteria in a single human being over 1 ‘flat’ year? It must be (relationally and metabolically) many factors of the flat age of the universe.

There is a profound distinction between biological time, geological time, relational time, experience of time, and temporality as specified in linear metrics.

We cannot understand ourselves, or the world, without correctly understanding a great deal more about these peculiar natures of each of these aspects of time, and particularly, the distinctions necessary to preserve them to our thought and experience.