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Biological and Astronomical Time

The intuition of the passage of time is linked to the action performed. Physiological actions condition the pacing of the economical actions we perform in the world, actions whose purpose is the homeostasis of the social and individual organism, i.e., to maintain the physiological actions going on. Our sense of time is constituted by the morphisms between our individual physiology (actually, the common physiology we share with the others) and the physiology of the group, which in turn is conditioned by the environment, and therefore, by the astrobiological frame. This basic sense of time is modified by the narratives about time, by the symbolic structures that we construct to evaluate our vital experience, which include either consciously (Überlebenswelt) or unconsciously (Lebenswelt and Unterlebenswelt) notions about time and its intuition. From the point of view of continuous rationality, our formal scientific theories about time are just n-aryzations of our basic emotions and therefore projections of our basic intuitions and biological processes. Astronomical time is but an endomorphism of biological time. This is observable in the traditional narratives of immortality. The other worlds are but images of this one, realms where biological time and economical actions mimic those of our ordinary life, family relations and economic activities. In the cases where a more astronomical sense of time is included, those Ba narratives in which the deceased subject is not a human or a biological being anymore (began in Egypt by the Osiris Priests), the scenarios become inevitably fuzzy. But something analogous happens with the scenarios of cosmology of modern physics, when numbers enter the realm of the continuum of the first second, and there is no more a subject (for those temporalities are not biological) but a metaphysical narrative of a neverland.
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