"Consciousness, besides detecting time's arrow, also roughly measures the passage of time. ...but is a bit of a bungler in carrying it out. ...Our consciousness somehow manages to keep ...record of the flight of time ...reading some kind of clock in the material brain ...a better analogy would be an entropy-clock ...primarily for measuring the rate of disorganisation of energy, and only roughly keeping pace with time. ...[I]n forming our ideas of duration and of becoming... [e]ntropy-gradient is... the direct equivalent of the time of consciousness in both... aspects. Duration measured by physical clocks (time-like interval) is only remotely connected."

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pp. 100-101.

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