Luke Mastin states that a temporal illusion is where our internal clock changes speed. This distorts or misconceives the time that occurs naturally in the world. A temporal illusion is a distortion in the perception of time that occurs for various reasons,… Read More ›
Psychology
Human time is a constructed version of environmental time – Pienaar.
Mariska Pienaar portrays human time, in the constructed form of measurable units, as a conscious or unconscious representation of environmental time. Furthermore, human time, when described in terms of one’s life stages, is said to reflect the temporality of the… Read More ›
Time-knowledge is in human tools, not in celestial objects – Birth.
Kevin Birth argues that the human knowledge of time is not associated with celestial movements. Instead, the knowledge that humans have of time is embedded within culturally diversified objects and tools, which distantly represent celestial movements. The study of objects… Read More ›
Contingent impressions of time differ from time’s reality – Flaherty.
Michael Flaherty explores the difference between the subjective impression of time’s passage, versus how much of that time has actually passed. The distinction is established between a reality of time, and contingent impressions of time. Time flies. For centuries, this… Read More ›
Psychology neglects the reality of natural time, in focusing on statistical representation – Kastenbaum.
Robert Kastenbaum characterises statistical, behaviour analysis, as a form of psychology which neglects the phenomenological reality of natural time. Such methods, Kastenbaum asserts, construct the appearance of the time of an individual, and of a population, when actually the focus… Read More ›