Psychological articles on time.

So, if anyone is interested in the psychological viewpoints on the perception of time, I found two articles that are quite enlightening.

This article focuses on the experience of time in everyday life. It discusses how our perception of time could be changed, and has fascinating examples of how time can be altered, for example, experiencing an earth quake while waiting for a pot to boil.

While this one focuses on how our perception of time get changed through drug and alcohol use. It is really interesting to see how time can be altered through such uses and how it changes depending on the drug.

Fantastically off topic!

So, guys, just to let you know, I have a new blog called Fantastical Philosophy! I have a couple blog posts up already and I will hopefully be updating things roughly once a week! The blog's emphasis is on philosophy done from a mythological or fantastical viewpoint, like as philosophy done from a perspective like a wizard's, elve's, or dragon's. Right now the current post up is a Dryad and a Maenad conversing on freedom and slavery so check it out!

Post reading: On time

Wow. Just, wow. I had no clue what just hit me. The article we had to read was a doozy. Anyways, That article actually reinforced my beliefs of what I hold time to be, but what I have realized is how little ground my definition actually covers. Physical and Psychological time, which are discussed in the article, seem to be what I had meant by perceived and physical time in my previous post. However, my concept of recorded time seems to be unique, for nothing in the article seemed to have mentioned it, or through recorded time under physical or psychological time. In my opinion it is something completely different than the two. Just as how a tree (Physical), a perception of a tree (Perceptive), and the organ that is used to perceive it of a tree (Recorded) are all different, so are my three ideas. Recorded time is a mental construct, while perceived time is a state of being. It is a subtle difference and they can play off of one another, but they are not the same.

So, if we were to start off with my previous theory on time then, then the only one that we could call external and objective is my physical time, or what physicists called spacetime, and would correspond with what was called absolutism in the philosophy of time. So, with this theory, in order to make it adequate, I would need to answer questions such as is time travel possible? Is time eternal? Is there such a thing as the past, present, and future? and so on. Right now, I view that it is impossible for me to answer all of these in one blog post, so I will try to spread them out over a few posts coming on up.