We assume time to be continuous, chronology gradiential. But can time exist without life? If we can only understand time in the human context, is it really meant to be continuous? Or,

Is time a compilation of distinct units?

Considering that humans may be the only species to conceive of the past, present, and future, we can understand only events and their placement according to the wider experience of life. Time does not pass, life passes. So how, then do we chart the passage of life? We construct units.

Thin lines, black and white, stacking. New, ongoing, old. Birth, death.



Nothing goes on--it exists and then it does not.