生命の時間・心の時間

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  • The time in biology and psychology
  • セイメイ ノ ジカン ココロ ノ ジカン

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Animals do not have organs specialized for sensing time. Time seems to be the concept created by the nervous system to integrate various cyclic events in the environment and those inside their own body. Thus the Newtonian absolute time may well be not the only time with which animals live. The pace of life is faster in smaller animals: many events in animal bodies are proportional to 1/4th power of body mass. The body-weight specific metabolic rate is proportional to -1/4th power of body mass. Therefore the pace of living or the “speed of time” is proportional to the specific metabolic rate. I call such time as the “metabolic time”. I believe that in the field of animal psychology we should interpret the behavior in the metabolic time of respective animals, not in the absolute time.

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