{"product_id":"the-timeconomy-from-cell-to-civilization-9798257480553","title":"The Timeconomy: From Cell to Civilization","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): S. Murtonen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Mind \u0026amp; Body\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Timeconomy: From Cell to Civilization\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the true foundation of value?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot money. Not markets. Not systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomething far deeper has been unfolding since the first living cell: a continuous expansion in the ability to perceive, to learn, to choose, and to shape reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are used to telling the story of life as a sequence of forms: cell, organism, human, society. But beneath those forms lies a more powerful story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book traces that hidden continuity, from the earliest emergence of life to the rise of civilization, revealing how intelligence evolves, how consciousness deepens, and how human beings become capable not only of surviving, but of directing their own existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of this journey is a simple but transformative insight: life advances through the increasingly skillful use of limited time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Timeconomy: From Cell to Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eMurtonen\u003c\/b\u003e connects biology, consciousness, culture, and civilization into a single unfolding process. The book explores how intelligence emerges from simple beginnings, how awareness becomes reflection and choice, and how human time shapes morality, culture, and progress. It shows why civilization is not separate from life, but its continuation, and what it means to live deliberately within a finite lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book of abstract theory or ideology. It is a shift in perspective. A way of seeing life as a continuous structure built from attention, effort, and choice, where every moment carries weight and every action leaves a trace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom this perspective, morality becomes a question of how we use our time in relation to others. Culture becomes accumulated patterns of lived time. Civilization becomes the long memory of human attention across generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book does not argue. It reveals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd once seen, it changes how everything is understood, from daily decisions to the direction of entire societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of philosophy, human development, and big-picture thinking, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Timeconomy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e offers a new lens on life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot just shaped by the world, but capable of shaping it in return.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882886119575,"sku":"9798257480553","price":1916.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798257480553.webp?v=1781097771","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-timeconomy-from-cell-to-civilization-9798257480553","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}