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Evolution and the nature of time.

Authors: Baquero, Fernando;

Evolution and the nature of time.

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En el pensamiento evolutivo, el concepto de tiempo es crítico, pero los biólogos evolutivos raramente lo consideran como un objeto de investigación teórica. La evolución significa una posibilidad de acceder al futuro de los organismos replicativos; es decir, la recompensa evolutiva se paga con la extensión del tiempo. La entidades replicativas obtienen tiempo, pero para ellas el tiempo sólo sirve para replicarse, para evolucionar y para expandir más allá la frontera del tiempo. Revisamos y tratamos aquí la posible influencia de considerar el tiempo, no como una mera dimensión (o una condición intuitiva a priori para la experiencia humana), sino como un objeto en sí mismo. Al menos como una metáfora, podemos considerar el tiempo como una entidad autorreplicativa enraízada en los seres físicos (entre ellos, los biológicos) que acaba produciendo tiempo dimensional. La autorreplicación del tiempo fuerza a los seres a replicarse para sostener la subsiguiente replicación del tiempo. En este sentido, el conjunto tiempo-replicación puede constituir la fuerza motriz, el motor básico que proporciona energía direccional al proceso evolutivo. Se presentan aquí las raíces filosóficas, los caveat y perspectivas de esta hipótesis. La metáfora del tiempo replicativo juega con la posibilidad de devolver el tiempo desde su función meramente reguladora de la investigación científica a una posición de constituyente de la naturaleza real y creativo y por ello objeto de investigación para las ciencias naturales.

The concept of time is critical in evolutionary thought, but rarely has it been considered as an object of theoretical research by evolutionary biologists. Evolution is an organism’s possibility of access to the future; in other words, evolutionary reward is paid out as increased time. Replicating entities are granted time, but for them, time only serves to allow replication and evolution, and to further expand the frontier of time. The present review discusses the possible influence of considering time not as a pure dimension (or an a priori intuitive condition of human experience) but as an object in itself. At least as a metaphor, time can be considered as a self-replicating entity rooted in physical (including biological) beings, with the result of producing dimensional time. Time self-replication forces beings to replicate, which, in turn, further sustains the replication of time. In that sense, time-replication may constitute the driving force, i.e., the basic engine, providing directional energy to the evolutionary process. The philosophical roots, caveats, and perspectives of this hypothesis are presented here. The metaphor of replicating-time plays with the possibility of viewing time not as a merely regulatory component of scientific inquiry but instead, as a real and creative constituent of nature and, for this reason, an object worthy of research in the natural sciences.

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Keywords

tempo evolutivo, tempo (natureza), tiempo evolutivo, evolución, Evolution, tempo como entidade replicativa, evolutionary time, time (as a replicating entity), evoluçao, tiempo (como entidad replicativa), Biological Evolution, Models, Biological, Time, tiempo (naturaleza), Evolutionary time, evolution, Animals, Humans, Time (nature), time (nature), Time (as a replicating entity)

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