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Sean Enda Power deposited Complex Experience, Relativity and Abandoning Simultaneity on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
Starting from the special theory of relativity it is argued that the structure of an experience is extended over time, making experience dynamic rather than static. The paper describes and explains what is meant by phenomenal parts and outlines opposing positions on the experience of time. Time according to he special theory of relativity is…[Read more]
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Sean Enda Power deposited Perceiving External Things and the Time-Lag Argument on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
We seem to directly perceive external things. But can we? According to the time‐lag argument, we cannot. What we directly perceive happens now. There is a time‐lag between our perceptions and the external things we seem to directly perceive; these external things happen in the past; thus, what we directly perceive must be something else, for exa…[Read more]