<p>There is a two times problem: human time has not been reconciled with physical time. Many physicists insist that the human experiential ‘flow’ (and ‘passage’) of time are illusory phenomena. Neuroscientists most often take a completely opposite point of view. As a compromise the Dualistic Mind view claims that the brain possesses a veridical system of major parameters of time but also a corresponding illusory system of parameters for the purposes of better adaptation and action. Continuity illusions are said to be, in large part, responsible for the illusory nature of these temporal parameters. The net result is that the ‘flow of time’ and the ‘passage of time’ have a unique reality in the agency of time perceivers. This is an update to our previous views on the dualistic model. The dualistic nature of seven major temporal parameters were analyzed, particularly concerning the experiential illusory continuities that are involved in them. These dualistic parameters include movement/motion, temporal order/temporality, and persistence/ephemerality. For example a cerebral add-on of continuity illusions (of the ‘apparent motion’ type) to veridical movement begets an illusory experiential motion. Ephemerality/persistence is another dualistic parameter for the observer in a simple spacetime scenario to negotiate one ‘present moment’ to the next. It explains Einstein’s ‘stubborn illusion’ of the past/present/future of time. Temporality/temporal order is yet another dualistic parameter which involves the ‘feeling of succession’ acting as a continuity illusion. These dynamistic experiences are all contributors to the ‘flow of time.’</p>

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Solving the ‘Two Times’ Problem with Continuity Illusions

  • Carlos Montemayor,
  • Ronald P. Gruber

摘要

There is a two times problem: human time has not been reconciled with physical time. Many physicists insist that the human experiential ‘flow’ (and ‘passage’) of time are illusory phenomena. Neuroscientists most often take a completely opposite point of view. As a compromise the Dualistic Mind view claims that the brain possesses a veridical system of major parameters of time but also a corresponding illusory system of parameters for the purposes of better adaptation and action. Continuity illusions are said to be, in large part, responsible for the illusory nature of these temporal parameters. The net result is that the ‘flow of time’ and the ‘passage of time’ have a unique reality in the agency of time perceivers. This is an update to our previous views on the dualistic model. The dualistic nature of seven major temporal parameters were analyzed, particularly concerning the experiential illusory continuities that are involved in them. These dualistic parameters include movement/motion, temporal order/temporality, and persistence/ephemerality. For example a cerebral add-on of continuity illusions (of the ‘apparent motion’ type) to veridical movement begets an illusory experiential motion. Ephemerality/persistence is another dualistic parameter for the observer in a simple spacetime scenario to negotiate one ‘present moment’ to the next. It explains Einstein’s ‘stubborn illusion’ of the past/present/future of time. Temporality/temporal order is yet another dualistic parameter which involves the ‘feeling of succession’ acting as a continuity illusion. These dynamistic experiences are all contributors to the ‘flow of time.’