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Section 2, Chapter 3, of The Clockless Clock

Venkatesh Rao
Aug 01, 2020
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Part of the The Clockless Clock book project.

The idea of a comfortingly legible hierarchical stack metaphor for subjective time runs into an immediate problem: Casual introspection suggests that subjective time experience is a single, organic, indivisible, unique, non-interchangeable, flowing gestalt, much like our sense of ourselves as integrated being…

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