To some degree, time is an illusion. We are bound by its forward passage, but the perceptions we have placed upon time have been invented: we invented the year, the month, the day, the hour, the minute, the second.
The way we understand time is almost entirely dependent on the fact that we evolved on this planet, circling this sun.
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