'A Succession of Feelings, in and of Itself, is Not a Feeling of Succession'

Hoerl, Christoph

doi:10.1093/mind/fzt070

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“…For some philosophers (Hoerl, 2013;Phillips, 2014;Soteriou, 2010), the answer to the first question is negative: the order of our experiences mirrors or inherits the temporal structure of the environment. Thus, to experience event A happening before B, we must perceive that particular temporal order, even if it is illusory, such as when a thunder is seen before it is heard.…”

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Time reordered: Causal perception guides the interpretation of temporal order

Bechlivanidis¹,

Lagnado²

2016

Cognition

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We present a novel temporal illusion in which the perceived order of events is dictated by their perceived causal relationship. Participants view a simple Michotte-style launching sequence featuring 3 objects, in which one object starts moving before its presumed cause. Not only did participants re-order the events in a causally consistent way, thus violating the objective temporal order, but they also failed to recognise the clip they had seen, preferring a clip in which temporal and causal order matched. We show that the effect is not due to lack of attention to the presented events and we discuss the problem of determining whether causality affects temporal order at an early perceptual stage or whether it distorts an accurately perceived order during retrieval. Alternatively, we propose a mechanism by which temporal order is neither misperceived nor misremembered but inferred "on-demand" given phenomenal causality and the temporal priority principle, the assumption that causes precede their effects. Finally, we discuss how, contrary to theories of causal perception, impressions of causality can be generated from dynamic sequences with strong spatiotemporal deviations.

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Time reordered: Causal perception guides the interpretation of temporal order

Bechlivanidis¹,

Lagnado²

2016

Cognition

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“… For recent discussions, see Dainton Stream of Consciousness esp. Ch.4, §2, Tye Ch.1, Bayne Ch.2, §2, and Hoerl ‘“A Succession of Feelings, in and of Itself, is Not a Feeling of Succession”’. In this author's opinion, a promising approach to these issues is to begin with the kind of ontological framework concerning events and processes developed most fully in Crowther’s recent work.…”

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Experience of and in Time

Phillips

2014

Philosophy Compass

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How must experience of time be structured in time? In particular, does the following principle, which I will call inheritance, hold: for any temporal property apparently presented in perceptual experience, experience itself has that same temporal property. For instance, if I hear Paul McCartney singing ‘Hey Jude’, must my auditory experience of the ‘Hey’ itself precede my auditory experience of the ‘Jude’, or can the temporal order of these experiences come apart from the order the words are experienced as having? A number of recent authors (Phillips Experience and Time, ‘The Temporal Structure of Experience’, Soteriou ‘Perceiving Events’, Hoerl ‘“A Succession of Feelings, in and of Itself, is Not a Feeling of Succession”’, Rashbrook) claim, to paraphrase Martin (399), that inheritance best characterises how our temporal experience seems to initial reflective intuition. For this reason, Phillips takes the principle to form part of our naïve view of temporal experience. An opposing group of theorists object that inheritance is subject to empirical counter‐example. This article surveys such challenges. Section 2 considers Grush's case against inheritance based on postdiction. Section 3 examines Watzl's anti‐inheritance argument based on silencing effects. Finally, Section 4 explores a number of alleged counter‐examples proposed by Lee (‘Temporal Experience and the Temporal Structure of Experience’). Section 1 provides essential background to the debate.

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“…At first, the very idea of such a brute disagreement over the phenomenology of our own experiences may appear baffling (unless we think of the B‐theorist as suffering from a form of blindness). I think it can be made sense of, however, once we recognize that we can be aware of how things unfold over time not just directly, through perceptual experience, but also through the interplay of perceptual experience and memory—for instance, when we become aware that something has changed because it no longer is the way we remember it as being, even though we did not perceive it changing . Indeed, I want to suggest that the difference between these two ways in which we can become aware of change over time is important in two ways.…”

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Time and the domain of consciousness

Hoerl

2014

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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It is often thought that there is little that seems more obvious from experience than that time objectively passes, and that time is, in this respect, quite unlike space. Yet nothing in the physical picture of the world seems to correspond to the idea of such an objective passage of time. In this paper, I discuss some attempts to explain this apparent conflict between appearance and reality. I argue that existing attempts to explain the conflict as the result of a perceptual illusion fail, and that it is, in fact, the nature of memory, rather than perception, that explains why we are inclined to think of time as passing. I also offer a diagnosis as to why philosophers have sometimes been tempted to think that an objective passage of time seems to figure directly in perceptual experience, even though it does not.

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'A Succession of Feelings, in and of Itself, is Not a Feeling of Succession'

Cited by 48 publications

References 30 publications

Time reordered: Causal perception guides the interpretation of temporal order

Time reordered: Causal perception guides the interpretation of temporal order

Experience of and in Time

Time and the domain of consciousness

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