This article is right up my alley: how does the brain perceive the passage of time?
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That is a very interesting article. Thanks.
I smiled at the Heidigger reference. What exactly is “time?” It doesn’t seem to have any real existence independent of the measure of change. Your favorite movies notwithstanding, it doesn’t seem to be a dimension in the sense of length, width, and depth. If nothing ever changed would time exist? Probably not, but then we wouldn’t know because thought and consciousness at their very basis imply some kind of change. Time is produced by consciousness, which is why its perception is so varied depending on the observer and also why we need some external objective time-keeper (the sun, moon, and stars being the first) to keep us all in sync.
That is a very interesting article. Thanks.
I smiled at the Heidigger reference. What exactly is “time?” It doesn’t seem to have any real existence independent of the measure of change. Your favorite movies notwithstanding, it doesn’t seem to be a dimension in the sense of length, width, and depth. If nothing ever changed would time exist? Probably not, but then we wouldn’t know because thought and consciousness at their very basis imply some kind of change. Time is produced by consciousness, which is why its perception is so varied depending on the observer and also why we need some external objective time-keeper (the sun, moon, and stars being the first) to keep us all in sync.