TIME AND LIFE: A BIOLOGICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF TIME'S IRRELEVANCE IN BIOCHEMICAL REGULATION
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This study presents a critical analysis of the concept of time as a regulatory quantity in living systems, exploring the hypothesis that time, although widely used as a descriptive reference in physics and social organization, does not exert a causal role on biochemical and physiological processes. Through an interdisciplinary approach involving physics, biology, and philosophy of science, the mutual dependence among SI units, particularly between the second and the meter, is examined, exposing the arbitrariness and anthropic construction of these references. Mechanisms of enzymatic and physiological regulation are discussed, highlighting their reliance on concentration gradients and electrochemical potentials, not on temporal measurements. Ultimately, the epistemological implications for understanding life are discussed, proposing that biology functions under its own internal logic, disconnected from chronological time. It is hypothesized that life emerged from what was physically present in the universe, and not from 'time', since the mechanisms that sustain life do not require time to exist.
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