We English speakers use the word Time in a variety of different ways. But most of them inherit biases and abject falsehoods from the idea of mechanical time, that is, either the ticks on a clock, or the passage of celestial objects through the sky. It is most commonly thought of as a ‘measure’ of a temporal interval.

Whatever Time may be, it is »not this, except that we insist that it is for some reason. Usually a reason related to slave-making, which occurs both by actual enslavement (to the necessity, for example of ‘earning’ money) and cognitive enslavement (by replacing a fundamentally rich principle with a utilitarian derivation).

If you consider biological time, then time is equivalent to something resembling the number of evolutionary experiments (of various sorts and durations) that can be resolved over some temporal interval, such as a second. A single cell can run at least a few thousand such experiments, and incorporate the results into future experiments over that interval. A human person, comprised of around 60 billion such cells, literally »produces biological temporalities of astonishing relational and temporal depth each second.

Imagine that instead of Time being the interval, it is »what transpires during the interval. It then becomes immediately obvious that organisms, by their nature, generate »new forms of time… at impossible rates… even in a single instant. It is crucially important to distinguish between mechanical time and biorelational time, because the former is almost idiotic, and the latter resembles something more like pure intelligence. The biologies are ‘reading the situation’ of the world, and responding instantly, transforming, and creating a universe of temporalities in every organism — and the relationships between them.