One Thing After Another: Why the Passage of Time Is Not an Illusion

Deng, Natalja

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22048-8_1

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“…This view is discussed in Baron et at. (2015), and criticised by Paul (2010), Dainton (2011), Hoerl (2014), Prosser (2016, Frischhut (2017), Deng (2019), Miller (2019). The second family, which is of interest here, infers the passage of time from the sense of presentness in our experience.…”

Section: Arguments From Presentnessmentioning

confidence: 89%

The Ways of Presentness

Torrengo

Cassaghi

2021

Erkenn

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The idea that the present moment is in some sense experientially privileged has been used in various arguments from presentness in favour of the existence of an objective present. Roughly speaking, in the literature we find two different approaches. Either by having an experience of something present we are aware of it as present (perceptual presentness), or by having an experience located in the present we are aware of our experience as present (locational presentness). While the various ways of understanding presentness can be used to formulate different arguments in favour of the existence of an objective present, none of them is ultimately tenable. Eventually, our conclusions will suggest that eliminativism is the best attitude towards presentness.

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Section: Arguments From Presentnessmentioning

confidence: 89%

The Ways of Presentness

Torrengo

Cassaghi

2021

Erkenn

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“…Similarly, on Veridicalism, I am under no illusion when I also believe myself to be typing now. There is no objective now, as there is no objective here, but from my observational perspective, both are real and shape my experience in important ways (Deng 2019b).…”

Section: Time In Twentieth and Twenty-first-century Philosophymentioning

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God, Salvation, and the Problem of Spacetime

Qureshi-Hurst

2022

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Much has been written on the relationship between the nature of temporal reality and the God of Classical Theism. Despite the popularity of this general area, what the physics and metaphysics of spacetime might mean for specific theological doctrines has received less attention. Recently, however, interest in this rich and dynamic interplay of ideas has seen rapid growth. This Element provides both an introduction to the physics and metaphysics of spacetime and a jumping-off point for understanding how these can – and in fact should – inform both Christian theology and the philosophy of religion more generally. The author will argue that the nature of spacetime raises particular and pressing problems for Christianity, specifically the interrelated doctrines of salvation and eschatology, and explore whether adequate solutions to these problems are available.

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“…If this was the only source, asking for POTJs could evoke nothing but the belief in this meme, and the complaint about time flying was just an empty phrase. However, ending the debate here would ignore the possibility that people might in fact be able to evaluate their experience of time passage: It has been argued that passage of time is actually the perception of succession, of one event happening after another ( Deng, 2019 ). This can be read as a reflection of Franklin’s idea: in hindsight, life is the accumulation of time, which is mentally represented as succession of events.…”

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Reminiscing and the Passage of Years: Investigating the Role of Affective Autobiographical Memories in Passage of Time Judgments

Kosak

Kuhbandner

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Previous research has shown that judgments of the experienced velocity of recent years passing by vary depending on the number of autobiographical memories being activated in the moment of judging. While a body of evidence shows affect to have an impact on both prospective and retrospective judgments on the experience of time for short periods, the effect of valence of memories on the experience of the passage of long intervals has not been examined yet. Thus, we asked 282 people to retrieve five either emotionally positive or negative memories from the last 5years before judging the subjectively experienced passage of time of these years. However, positive and negative events differ in some ways beyond valence, e.g., the ascribed impact on the participants’ subsequent lives as well as the stability of ascribed affective intensity: The latter decreased over time for negative but not for positive memories while ascribed impact was markedly higher for positive memories. Results indicate no significant differences between the two conditions, even after controlling for the aforementioned differences. However, exploratory analyses show that participants rate time to have passed faster, the longer the activated memories dated back on average, a result that seems in line with contextual-change hypothesis.

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One Thing After Another: Why the Passage of Time Is Not an Illusion

Cited by 30 publications

References 7 publications

The Ways of Presentness

The Ways of Presentness

God, Salvation, and the Problem of Spacetime

Reminiscing and the Passage of Years: Investigating the Role of Affective Autobiographical Memories in Passage of Time Judgments

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