Right. But does it have a recipe for sausage rolls?
Animals are not aware of their own existence and its significance either, they are aware of food, shelter, the opposite sex, and other survival things. Why does our awareness of whats around us matter? You think if we were not aware of the passing seasons and minutes and were only concentrated on NOW as an animal is that time wouldn't exist?
Thats wrong in many ways. I don't care what gene or what neurons mark the passing of time, that is irrelevant. OUr perception of the world around is is complex and advanced, animals perception deals with its survival only, we have evolved so that our survival depends on seasons and time, crops and such. We can see plainly in the earth that even though before humans were alive to percieve time, time existed. The records we view in the universe are not an illusion, perception is simply understanding nothing more. I bet if you go back in evolution when that gene came around we started planting crops and marking the seasons.. does that mean there were no seasons before then?? of course not. We weren't around bilions of years ago yet time moved on without us to watch it.
If you can't accept that then you my friend can't accept anything you see at all, you may as well believe you are in a sim game or something. What do you want us to do stop trying to understand the universe and see if it goes away? lol I don't know about this one.
I wish I knew what woo-woo meant lol. But you have me confused, I think I explained pretty well why the arrow of time is real. However if you are simply stating without biology we would be ignorant of it.. then that is probably correct then we would only be in the present not worrying about past or future. Yet time will still move along in our ignorance, and we don't hibernate so we may well starve and be extinct without a concept of time.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are saying ?