time , sequential arrangement of all events: Psychology of Time
Psychology of Time
As a practical matter, clocks and calendars regulate everyday life. Yet at the most primitive level, human awareness of time is simply the ability to distinguish which of any two events is earlier and which later, combined with a consciousness of an instantaneous present that is continually being transformed into a remembered past as it is replaced with an anticipated future. From these common human experiences evolved the view that time has an independent existence apart from physical reality.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- Biological Time
- Time Reversal Invariance
- Relativistic Time
- Philosophy and Science of Time
- Psychology of Time
- Physical Time and Its Measurement
- Bibliography
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