RE: A Different Perspective on the Existence of Time: Thought as the smallest Unit of Time

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A Different Perspective on the Existence of Time: Thought as the smallest Unit of Time

in philosophy •  7 years ago 

In his book 'The Stuff of Thought' I remember Steven Pinker positing that human temporal consciousness is also not continuous but consists of discrete quanta of roughly 3-second intervals, which is about the same period for the decay of certain short-term memories.
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Thanks for sharing.