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Experiencing the passage of time: Between the memory view and specious present theories| old_uid | 13024 |
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| title | Experiencing the passage of time: Between the memory view and specious present theories |
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| start_date | 2013/11/18 |
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| schedule | 16h-18h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Theories attempting to explain the experience of the passage of time through the human experience of motion and/or auditory streams have been classified by Dainton (2008) and others into three broad categories: memory, retentionalist and extensionalist theories. I argue first that the current conception of auditory working memory as involving phonological loops, and not a separate memory module, casts doubt into distinguishing the first two groups of theories. Then I propose a description of the human cognitive architecture that retains the insights of all three theories without putting them into direct competition. Three separate paths from sense to consciousness are distinguished, each roughly corresponding to the positive part of each of the three theories, all of which are involved in normal-working human processing of change. Moreover, all three can be viewed as parts of objective perceiving, and all three are needed to explain abnormal cases such as akinetopsia. I conclude that we should include the positive parts of all three theories in a philosophical explanation of our experience of the passage of time. |
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| responsibles | Kriegel |
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