Does the brain have a clock? 

I mean a natural clock. Of course we can relate events to other events such as 
day and night and use that as a sort of "time stamps." Or a person can go live 
in Antarctica for a winter, or in a dark cave, but that person would be an 
adult that has already set lots of time stamps. 

But I do not mean that, I mean a natural sense of time, not a learned one. Can 
an infant tell time? How do todlers learn time? I mean, before they learn how 
to use a clock. Do they have a natural clock, like computers have? If they do, 
then where is it, and what is the number of ticks per second? It must have been 
measured. 

If they don't, then there would be ground to believe that the brain uses 
cause-effect relationships between events to set a causal scale of its own, and 
the scale would be its internal clock. Which, in turn, would mean that the 
brain uses causality as time. 

Why am I asking? 1. In fundamental Physics, causality is used as time. 2. If 
the brain indeed uses causality, then episodic memories and pattern recognition 
would be very nearly the same thing.

Sergio




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