Does It Really Seem to Us as Though Time Passes?

Miller, Kristie

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22048-8_2

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“…For example, most people think that time passes faster as they get older. But this thought does not correspond to any reality (Miller, 2019). In everyday life, time does not pass more quickly in older than in younger people (e.g., Droit-Volet & Wearden, 2015).…”

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confidence: 92%

The Retrospective and Present Judgment of the Passage of Time in the Elderly

Droit‐Volet

Martinelli

Dambrun

et al. 2021

Timing Time Percept.

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This study examined the judgment of the passage of time in elderly people living in retirement homes, focusing on the passage of time experienced in the present and that judged retrospectively for short periods (last day, week, month) and longer periods of life (last year, now compared with five years ago, as we get older). Participants’ cognitive abilities and feelings of happiness were also assessed among other dimensions. Results showed no significant relationship between these three forms of judgment of the passage of time, except between the judgment of the passage of time for the present and for the day. In addition, the level of happiness was a significant predictor of both the momentary judgment of the passage of time and the retrospective judgment of the passage of time for shorter periods. In contrast, the individual differences in cognitive abilities better explained differences in the retrospective judgment of the passage of time for longer periods. As discussed, the different forms of judgment of the passage of time are therefore based on different cognitive mechanisms.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 92%

The Retrospective and Present Judgment of the Passage of Time in the Elderly

Droit‐Volet

Martinelli

Dambrun

et al. 2021

Timing Time Percept.

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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: 88%

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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“…In this, they agree with Ismael (2012Ismael ( , 2017 and Sattig (2019a,b), who hold that representing these experiences as changing constitutes our having a veridical experience of time flowing. More generally, many block theorists hold that we have veridical experiences of anemic flow: the kind of flow that is present in block worlds and is consistent with physics (Dainton, 2011;Deng, 2013Deng, , 2019Hoerl, 2014;Baron and Miller, 2018;Miller, 2019;Miller et al, 2020;Leininger, 2021). These authors deny that we have experiences of robust flow: experiences as of there being a unique present that changes, and hence they deny that our experiences of flow are illusory.…”

Section: An Illusion Of Flowmentioning

confidence: 99%