Linearly calibrated time is an illusion

Abstract, linearly calibrated time – like its negation, pure stochasticity – is an illusion, reinforced only by our own species-specific dimensional scaling and self-referentiality. "Only the behaviour of the natural system itself (its properties of non-linear recursion under specified conditions of observation) identifies the contextual meaning of time."

Mike Davis, Dead Cities (The New Press, 2002) p. 325