Have you ever had the "whole life flashing before my eyes" experience (not necessarily in a near-death situation; there are other triggers), and if so did you have a sense of time slowing to a crawl, nearly stopping?
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"Time isn't actually slowing" is not actually a meaningful statement anymore. That absolute mode of accounting for time experience is starting to be as obsolete in psychology as it is in physics.
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bah the textbooks are all obsolete :D
that ptsd paper I shared with you is one of the few that actually gets close to what I think is the correct view that simply hasn't been articulated as a paradigm yet, but you can see the contortions trying to save clock-time
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yes and no,
having nearly died before I found time slows, but within a specific period or shape; it’s like what Bergson says about Duration—you lose the ordinal framework of time and instead feel the thing happening, happening
it’s probably not replicable though lol
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it would certainly take very clever, and almost certain unethical experimental design to produce the effect in the lab, so it's down to economics style "experimentation" looking for in-the-wild accounts and analyzing them in a structured way
I think the problem is deeper than that—it foists upon the subject a intensified l, temporalized subjectivity, once which is frequently beyond our ability to recount in even metaphor, much less convert into data
best we could do is look at brain scans and make shit up
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I know, I've experienced it too. I don't think brain scans would particularly help except for some circumstantial support for inferences from another technique. But I suspect something like protocol analysis would get more results than you might think.
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