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The Three-Times Problem

Farr, Matt (2023) The Three-Times Problem. [Preprint]

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Abstract

In the two feature articles for this volume, Gruber et al. (2022) and Buonomano and Rovelli (2021) focus on what the former call the ‘two-times problem’, in short, the apparent lack of fit between time as described by physical science and our own temporal experience, where ‘experience’ involves things like memory, anticipation, and perception of change and motion. In this short note I’ll make the case that the two-times problem is less serious than it is often made out to be in the specific case of features like ‘passage’ and ‘presentness’ that are central to the ‘A-theory’ of time — the theory that holds time to be composed of dynamic regions of ‘past’, ‘present’ and future’, and for time to genuinely flow or pass.


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Farr, Mattmail@mattfarr.co.uk0000-0001-6238-7990
Additional Information: For special issue of 'Frontiers in Psychology', titled 'Human Time Within Physical time'.
Keywords: Time Passage Experience Direction of time
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Perception
Specific Sciences > Physics
Depositing User: Dr Matt Farr
Date Deposited: 01 Jun 2023 11:57
Last Modified: 01 Jun 2023 11:57
Item ID: 22158
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Perception
Specific Sciences > Physics
Date: June 2023
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22158

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