Minding time : a philosophical and theoretical approach to the psychology of time / by Carlos Montemayor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montemayor, Carlos.

Series:

Supplements to The study of time ; v. 5.

Supplements to The study of time, 1873-7463 ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time.

Physical Description:

xiv, 154 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Summary:

If time is an illusion, asks Montemayor (philosophy, San Francisco State U.), and scientists indeed say it is, then what could create such a powerful illusion? In particular, he explores exactly how the mind represents time, and how to characterize the awareness of time. He covers periodic and interval clocks: the uniformity of time; sensory-motor representations of time, the outputs of the clocks and the two constraints on motor time coordination; and a two-phase model of the present. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

I Introduction

1.1 Minding Time 1

1.2 Time: The Most Primitive Representation 5

1.3 Outline of Proposals 8

II Periodic and Interval Clocks: The Uniformity of Time and the Units of Time 11

2.1 Records of Time 13

2.2 Periodic Clocks 15

2.3 Interval Clocks 18

2.4 A Comparison Between Periodic and Interval Clocks 25

2.4.1 Disadvantages of Periodic Clocks 25

2.4.2 Disadvantages of Interval Clocks 28

2.4.3 Hybrid and Semi-Hybrid Clocks 32

2.5 The Circadian Clock 35

2.5.1 Entrainment 37

2.5.2 Circadian Clock Representations 40

2.6 The Stopwatch 46

III Sensory-Motor Representations of Time, the Outputs of the Clocks and the Two Constraints on Motor Time Coordination 55

3.1 Representation and Isomorphism 56

3.2 Metric Structure 65

3.2.1 The Metric Structure of the Outputs of the Circadian Clock 65

3.2.2 The Metric Structure of the Outputs of the Stopwatch 69

3.3 Analog Clock Representations 74

3.3.1 First Criterion: Loss of Information 76

3.3.2 Second Criterion: Continuity and Density 79

3.3.3 Third Criterion: Approximate Representation 81

3.3.4 Fourth Criterion: Analog Misrepresentation 83

3.3.5 Fifth Criterion: Cognitive Integration 87

IV A Two-Phase Model of the Present (Coordination and Experience) 93

4.1 Simultaneity Windows and the Units of Time: The Third Constraint on Coordination in Time 96

4.1.1 Sense-Specific Simultaneity Windows 97

4.1.2 The Multi-Sensory Integration Window 99

4.1.3 The Multi-Sensory Integration Window and the Clocks 102

4.1.4 The Sensorial Present 105

4.2 Meta-Semantic Mechanisms and the Temporal Indexical 112

4.2.1 The Need for Meta-Semantic Mechanisms 114

4.2.2 The Meta-Semantic Mechanism for Temporal Demonstrative Representation 115

4.3 The Phenomenal Present 118

4.3.1 The Phenomenal Specious Present 121

4.3.2 The Relation Responsible for Phenomenal Unification 127

4.4 The Two-Phase Model of the Present 133.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004228917

9004228918

9789004236172

9004236171

OCLC:

806981080