My appologies for a couple of things, the delay in replying ( still have ongoing computer problems) and for asking about something I didn’t have a clue about (and still not sure). With your help I’ve managed to get a slightly better grasp.
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neurocomp2003
"arrow of time" do you mean the physics/math based concept of motion?
or the human behaviour of memories and flashbacks and dreams?
Thanks for distinguishing these, I wanted to mean is their anything about the latter and the neural processes involved in those and other temporal perceptions that sheds light on the former.
I asked the question with an sudden concern that my limited understanding of physical time was compounded by missing something obvious- some generally accepted understanding about how time is apprehended. The thought was this – that since our knowledge of time’s passing is the result of mental processes, then how much of our understanding is shaped by these processes?
I see that it is more complex than I had first assumed. Does any answer exist along a line between extemes of, (is the right?) a perspectivalist view, that things perceived are solely products of our minds, and the other extreme, that time we perceive is an accurate account of physical time or that time directly makes the time perceived.? I think Dennet argued against this last idea. As I still can’t understand how a telephone can possibly do this and make a noise that is unmistakably a friend’s voice on the other end, I’m personally not inclined to this view, but can reluctantly conceive it, given allowances for specious time and the time it takes to perceive and process time.
Somewhere midway between the extremes would be an idea that something time-like exists, is abstracted by translation into neural signals, and time’s passing is what we make of it?
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There are people who experience flashbacks, slowmotion, timelessness, etc., but i have never heard of anyone experiencing events going backwards. They may have a flashback of their childhood, but its not that they see their childhood moving in the opposite direction, like a brick falling upwards where it came from.
Thanks. Do you think this would reinforce a notion that neural processes abstract time to a rather great degree, because of the seemingly inaccurate sequencing?
Also, I was wondering whether there was anything to be gleaned about the relationship of time and space from any relationship between how the two are processed.
I hope this post is clearer, and I would still like to be corrected or helped further.
