The experience of time has been a long-standing interest of mine. Most research focuses on short periods, like seconds/minutes, affected by emotions etc. There's not much afaik on how we experience years and decades.
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Long-term memory is under-theorized. At personal life level I think I experienced an 'end of history' moment when I went free agent almost exactly 8 years ago. But it feels like yesterday. OTOH I remember 2001-2011 as a much more coherent 10 year story story. That's atemporality.
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He calls himself an "ontological metaphysicist" who has written extensively about the "emmanence of time". He is one of the few people I know who take "time" seriously as a metaphysical construct, and not merely a "smearing" of 3D sensory phenomena across gray matter.
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Your tweets hint at an intuition I had about the human experience (qualia) of time. It seems to me that *frequency* is the way we perceive time. Repetition forms reality. I once posed the odd provocation, "Is it possible for humans to perceive something that only happens *once*?"
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