I will examine the four participants in this quip, seperately, then I will combine them to obtain the understanding necessary to prove or disprove the logical disposition of the phrase.
Our current definition of time, involves change. The measurement of time consists of estimating the changes which occur to physical phenomena. Usually a substance or physical material, is chosen which demonstrates a regular rate of change. Of course this regular rate is apparent to our consciousness which has the ability to percieve changes in substances and to approximate the regularity of any and all changes.
Our perception of time as a species is intrinsic in enduring existence. Existence which involves various rates of change and their combination which produce viable phenomena entails within the intrinsic existence of the parts which when summed or combined comprise the whole, a wait, a waiting on another part to ready itself, which signifies in totality, the enduring state.
To complete this section on time, we have the human which endures moments in existence, to enjoy and appreciate esistence as a whole, while the rate of change of physical matter is counted, and the two are combined, giving the human a reference to the totality of change in existence the human has endured. An easy reference is shown on a clock face signifying physical matter changing in existence at a constant rate, while humans perform the harder job of enduring all the wait states which are necessary to accomodate their viable existence.
Involvement of Humans necessarily entail the capabilities Humans posess. We will address this issue using one Human as an example which will be in disregard of the male factor or female bias. When we use the term sentient Human we usually attribute consciousness to the human. Any association with human consciousness involves the head of the human, which carries with it, sensing apparatus, a memory system and a thinking mechanism which allows further processing of memories and sensory data. To be clear sensory data is obtained by the use of sensing apparatus.
Sensory apparatus are involved with the acquisition of data outside of itself, which is the exterior of the sensory apparatus. This can clearly be followed since ears no not hear themselves as well as eyes do not see themselves. The taste of one's tongue is more or less unknown.
Memory on the other hand allows the state of affairs to be captured. All previous changes to be frozen at the last point of interaction. Memory allows a stable state to commence. Perfect memory means the state is unchanged, no additons, no deletions, since the beginning of the inception of what was meant to be memorised. Human memory as we stated resides in the head of the human. Humans have other memories, like scars on the body, or the body itself which is a memory of past action. These memories outside the head will concern us little in this discussion.
The next little point we must make is thinking, this is the thinking which transpires in the head of the human. What thinking really means is to change or process the object pf the thought. To prove change occurs when we think, we only need to follow the following argument. We can readily imagine two things, which we can call Thought and Object, Thought corresponds to the act of thinking and Object can be anything imaginable. We can all ascertain that Object will remain Object if it does not change in any way, so we we think of Object and it remains Object then we have done nothing to Object, we have therefore achieved noting, except to have Object in the forefront of our memory. This really means if we think of Object and Object remains Object our thinking process does nothing. We should be able to gather that thinking about Object, really thinking about Object, bring about a change in our head concerning Object, otherwise we are not thinking we are only reviewing. In reality then thinking entails change. This is a change for better or for worse. This change should lead to a change in understanding.
We can now move on to the perception of the speed of time.
When we think about the speed of time we can at first change this phrase and talk about the passage of time. The passage of time seems more in line with our ideas of enduring change. Why does the passage of time fit with our concept of enduring change? We said time becomes obvious when change has to be endured. This motion of change, moving from one state to the next can be described as the passing from one state to the next state. Revising our statement, we now have to endure the passing of one state to the next, in the same way, you the reader, have to endure the passing from one word to the next as you continue to read this discussion. The enduring of the change of words from your eyes to your brain as you read, indicates the passage of an enduring of changes, or the passage of time. This passage of time is dependent on you yourself. If you are passing from one word to the next slowly, then the change from one word to the next occurs slowly. If you pass from one word to the next quickly, the the change occurs quickly. The direct implication of these two different passages of change is either your own time is passing slowly or your own time is passing quickly. At this point let us not confuse your own time with the time shown on your watch. Remember the time shown on your watch or the time shown on the clock is only a reference indicating the passing of nature. This is used so you can be aware of the rest of the world around you.
Let us return to the speed of time.
We are at a point where we can reasonably believe humans have their own clock. Humans having their own clock relies on the idea of any Human having their own rates of change, be it reading, writing, thinking, focusing attention, or anything which involves the human in self-imposed change. The human may be involved with the world at the pace of the human. The world may be involved with the human but again the human may respond at a human pace.
We can agree that the world outside human self-change moves and switches at the rate described by any clock on the wall. We can now definitively say there are two clocks or different sets of time. One time is the human inner clock and the other time is the outer clock, which is the rate the universe changes. The outer clock seems to be a constant time for all under the universe while the inner clock seems to be constant for all under the inner human clock. Any Human is self-synchronised. The universe is also synchronised within its boundaries.
To conclude it seems that the speed of time is a relation between the rate of change of the inner human clock which occurs to all humans and the constant rate of change which is indicated by all clocks on the outside wall. We try to synchronise our lives to the global time using our watches. The speed of time as a term to be understood by all, is what we percieve as time when we think about time passing. This is the rate at which that collection of perceptions of time passing, go by.
We shall pass our next few moments in the realisation that we comprehend what is the perception of the speed of time so we can move on to the 4th element in our list which corresponds to actions humans perform which are notably fun.
To give a fair response to the question concerning the scope of Human actions, I must consider both mental and physical aspects of humanity. We previously mentioned thinking as being part of the human makeup, something in which humans are deeply involved. Actions involve motion, this is the basis of action. Motion involves change, this is the basis of motion, which is a change in spatial location or a change in physical appearance. We can term thinking an action humans perform since we described thought as comprising of change. The inmlication is that anything in which humans involve themselves would comprise of action, since the very act of involving oneself in something necessitates a change. Once human involvement commences, then all that follows which should include various degrees of change can be said to be an act or an action undertaken by that human.
Now it seems as if anything that can be attributed to the human which involves change can also be qualified as an action performed by the human. Humans think and humans experience the world through actions in the world. The experiencing of the world which must involve change, necessitates actions by the human to be associated with the changes that occur in the world to be thereafter qualified as experiences. Humans perform actions in the world by using the apparatus of their bodies. Arms, legs, mouth, fingers, toes and similar appendages. These physical actions in the world are said to be derived from the working of the brain and from thought.
Thinking and the way the brain performs are supposed to be the driving forces behind all actions of humans. We try to understand human action as thought action and planetary action. Planetary action is the source of experience and the same as experience, while thinking is the basis of mental action. Planetary action necessitates mental action. We can conclude that the source of all actions is mental action.
Seeing we claim all actions have a mental counterpart unless we speak of total mental actions which we term thinking, we should realise there is memory involved as part of the mental makeup of the human. We showed this mental makeup earlier. Any human which is involved in action would have the possibility of associating memory with the action. Quite rightly we notice we are able to remember pure mental actions. Other times we are able to remember planetary action.
The association of memory with action causes a bias within the memory of the action. It seems there are various degrees of bias towards memory of action. In language we attribute to the bias a declarative, calling the bias of the memory, happy, sad, nice, fun, drudgery along with a whole lot more which is out of the scope of our current discussion. The bias of the memory seems to be self-forming. This bias of memory is possibly associated with the concepts humans term feelings and sensations. Whatever form the bias is present in the human memory, it can be said to exist because it is percievable. With mental control over additional actions which may then be associated with the existing bias of memory, the human is able to select memories based on the bias and perform actions similar to what formed the memories in the first place. There may be a few exceptions to the manner in which bias can be attributed to a memory with the use of exceptional mental control.
Now we can claim that the bias of the memory of any human action has the possibility of being termed fun. This bias of fun is dependent on the mental actions and memories of an individual human. Any current action or action performed in the immediate, can be biased based on any previous memory which can be associated with the action in progress. A bias can also be in the process of an association with memory formation and this bias is newly associated with fun. The bias already accumulated with memory can surge and in doing so biases the action undergoing change. Experiences it seems can be naturally biased, like eating and drinking.
We said the idea of the speed of time of any human was dependent on human time associated with the human clock, and percieving a collection of relations between human time and planetary time. This is itsef a human action. This would also coincide with other human actions. It follows when a human experiences a bias which the human terms fun and the speed of time is also percievable, then the possibility exists for this speed of time to be termed slow or fast. We can clearly say that some humans may logically claim that time was flying while they were engaged in actions which they associated with having fun. Their claim that time as flying was due to their percieving a relation between their own human clock and the planetary clock. Now can we clearly define the conditions which could be active while this claim can be made? Yes we can, we only have to select some conditions from our previous reasoning and assert them, that is claiming those circumstances as having occured and what would logically follow would be the perception of time flying while the human was having fun.
The first assertion would have to be the bias of the action of the human towards the term fun. The second would be the Human clock running slow in relation to the planetary clock. This means when humans percieve a relation between their clock and the planetary clock, the planetary clock seems to jump by amounts which cause them to percieve planetary time passing by quickly. This entails the human is so occupied in change that there is no mental measurement of the human clock and this realises the idea of the human ckock running slow.
