"In my scientific brochure Space-Time in Highly-Organized Biological Systems (2012) a new definition of a Generalized Time was proposed.
Generalized time is a way to order events into processes (e. g. internal times) and/or coordinate between phases of various processes (e. g. external or watch-times).
Such a definition implies a possibility to employ different processes as our reference clocks. As a result, time is seen as an operator or an algorithm interconnecting different parallel processes. Depending on the processes involved it might be a one-dimensional physical linear time or alpha-numerical strings of the calendar's data (so-called time-codons).
Such a concept of time enables us to construct diverse scales or algorithms by means of which the individual existence could be integrated in the larger schemes of terrestrial, cosmic or social systems of the external world. Knowing whether a certain model of time matches the reality depends solely on revealing the true nature of the processes involved."
(Elizabetha Levin, Abstracts of International Symposium IAEA, October 2015)
