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The Illusions of Time

2019-09-26
The Illusions of Time

Author: Valtteri Arstila

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030220488

Category: Science

Page: 383

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This edited collection presents the latest cutting-edge research in the philosophy and cognitive science of temporal illusions. Illusion and error have long been important points of entry for both philosophical and psychological approaches to understanding the mind. Temporal illusions, specifically, concern a fundamental feature of lived experience, temporality, and its relation to a fundamental feature of the world, time, thus providing invaluable insight into investigations of the mind and its relationship with the world. The existence of temporal illusions crucially challenges the naïve assumption that we can simply infer the temporal nature of the world from experience. This anthology gathers eighteen original papers from current leading researchers in this subject, covering four broad and interdisciplinary topics: illusions of temporal passage, illusions and duration, illusions of temporal order and simultaneity, and the relationship between temporal illusions and the cognitive representation of time.

The Illusion of Time Perception

2020-02-16
The Illusion of Time Perception

Author: Norimichi Shuto

Publisher: SCB Distributors

ISBN: 9781642730715

Category: Science

Page: 200

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From his unique perspective, author Norimichi Shuto re-examines the mixed fields of knowledge expounded by Zeno, Descartes, Husseri, Galileo, Newton, Yojichiro and Einstein, and gives evidence that the perception of time is nothing but an illusion. He closes in on the essence of time without the use of formulas and by taking clues from time itself, as it passes right before our very eyes. In the process, by referring to the hypothesis that light is the source of our consciousness, our universe, and of all matter, the clues to understanding the Arrow of Time will ultimately be revealed.

It's About Time: The Illusions of Time Perception and Travel in Immersive Virtual Reality

2016
It's About Time: The Illusions of Time Perception and Travel in Immersive Virtual Reality

Author: Rodrigo Pizarro Lozano

Publisher:

ISBN: OCLC:970504908

Category:

Page: 173

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Changing the passage of time is a concept that has captured the imagination of many philosophers and writers throughout history, but we have no evidence of anyone being capable of altering it at a macroscopic level. But what if it were possible? This question formed the basis of our research, and in this thesis we describe a series of experiments carried out to address this. In this thesis we report three main experiments. The first considered whether the perception of elapsed time can be influenced by the tempo of music. We placed participants in an immersive virtual reality environment where they heard in the background two versions of a musical piece, varying only in tempo, for 7.5 minutes in two separate sessions. Volunteers retrospectively estimated the length of each session. The results show that participants' estimates were not correlated with background music tempo. In the second experiment we considered whether previous findings that body size and age influence the perception of space might also influence the perception of time. In this experiment we immersed participants in a virtual reality scenario in which they performed a task for 200 seconds while embodied in one of three avatars that depicted three different age groups. Volunteers underwent two trials where the only change was the avatar they embodied, and compared the length of the sessions. The results suggested that time perception was not affected by body shape, but the task performance was. In the third experiment we addressed the notion of time travel itself, and considered whether virtual reality can be used to give people the illusion of having travelled back through time. We immersed participants in virtual reality where they experienced a series of events that unknowingly led to a violent incident. Immediately after they were either transported in time to the beginning of the developments or they simply restarted the session, depending on the condition. We found that participants felt as if they had travelled back in time whenever subjective levels of other three illusions were high. We also describe an application of the technology that was developed for the time travel to a psychological counselling situation, where people could maintain a conversation with an embodied version of themselves. We set the background of this thesis in reviewing the major themes of virtual reality research, including the concepts of presence and its constituent elements of ‘place illusion' and ‘plausibility' – the sense of being in the place depicted by the virtual environment, and the illusion that events are real. Of particular importance in our work is the concept of ‘body ownership' – the feeling that a co-located virtual body seen from first person perspective is the participant's real body, and we present a critical review of the relevant literature showing how this thesis relates to past work and is a further contribution. Finally, in order to carry out the scientific work reported in this thesis we have made technical advances in virtual reality, including the development of a software platform that integrates compatibility for several different devices. The conclusion of the thesis is that more research is necessary in the field of time perception and time travel in immersive virtual reality. We have seen that body shape can affect cognitive task performance, and further studies should expand the knowledge by analysing more variables. Additionally, a novel kind of illusion is presented in this thesis. Its potential and limits should be explored in future experiments, possibly with completely different applications. Indeed, the technology involved was applied in a study, reported in this thesis, concerned with personal counselling. Overall, this thesis contains several different angles on the illusions of time perception and time travel. We present a thorough review of the literature involving the perception of time and the illusions of presence, body ownership and agency, as well as the technical background. Furthermore, the description of three studies that take a novel approach to time perception and time travel is included. Finally, we discuss our results and outline a future work direction.

The Illusion of Will, Self, and Time

2015-06-01
The Illusion of Will, Self, and Time

Author: Jonathan Bricklin

Publisher: SUNY Press

ISBN: 9781438456270

Category: Psychology

Page: 405

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Discusses how William James’s work suggests a world without will, self, or time and how research supports this perspective. William James is often considered a scientist compromised by his advocacy of mysticism and parapsychology. Jonathan Bricklin argues James can also be viewed as a mystic compromised by his commitment to common sense. James wanted to believe in will, self, and time, but his deepest insights suggested otherwise. “Is consciousness already there waiting to be uncovered and is it a veridical revelation of reality?” James asked shortly before his death in 1910. A century after his death, research from neuroscience, physics, psychology, and parapsychology is making the case, both theoretically and experimentally, that answers James’s question in the affirmative. By separating what James passionately wanted to believe, based on common sense, from what his insights and researches led him to believe, Bricklin shows how James himself laid the groundwork for this more challenging view of existence. The non-reality of will, self, and time is consistent with James’s psychology of volition, his epistemology of self, and his belief that Newtonian, objective, even-flowing time does not exist.

Time Is an Illusion

2016-05-06
Time Is an Illusion

Author: David J Conway

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

ISBN: 9781514495070

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 66

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This month has been an experience, which began with ten uniforms, eight surrounding me with guns, a sick, dying chicken, and I ask myself the question, how do you soar like an eagle? I was then informed by police to “step away from the chicken!” I spent the next thirty-two days locked up, drugged many times, room was raided four times, was strangled once, and experienced an inland tsunami! During this experience, I was physically beaten, emotionally constipated, spiritually raped, and mentally flipped inside out. But I managed to write down everything on Facebook every few days to my family and friends at home, and that's how this story was written! Keep fighting the good fight, people!

The Illusion of Reality

2012-12-06
The Illusion of Reality

Author: Howard L. Resnikoff

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9781461234746

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 339

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The Illusion of Reality was conceived during my tenure as director of the newly established Division of Information Science and Technology at the National Science Foundation in 1979-1981 as a partial response to the need for a textbook for students, both in and out of government, that would pro vide a comprehensive view of information science as a fundamental constitu ent of other more established disciplines with a unity and coherence distinct from computer science, cognitive science, and library science although it is related to all of them. Driven by the advances of information technology, the perception of information science has progressed rapidly: today it seems well understood that information processing biological organisms and informa tion processing electronic machines have something basic in common that may subsume the theory of computation, as well as fundamental parts of physics. This book is primarily intended as a text for an advanced undergraduate or a graduate introduction to information science. The multidisciplinary nature of the subject has naturally led to the inclusion of a considerable amount of background material in various fields. The reader is likely to fmd the treat ment relatively oversimplified in fields with which he is familiar and, perhaps, somewhat heavier sailing in less familiar waters. The theme of common principles among seemingly unrelated applications provides the connective tissue for the diverse topics covered in the text and, I hope, justifies the variable level of presentation. Some of the material appears here for the first time.

Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Issues of Our Time)

2007-02-17
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Issues of Our Time)

Author: Amartya Sen

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN: 9780393243192

Category: Political Science

Page: 240

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“One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine Gordimer In this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision of a world that can be made to move toward peace as firmly as it has spiraled in recent years toward brutality and war.

The Illusion

2015-01-27
The Illusion

Author: Dan Sharma

Publisher: Partridge Publishing

ISBN: 9781482843859

Category: Fiction

Page: 124

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The Illusion, the novel by Dan Sharma, is about the ups and downs in the life of Danny, a young student in Burma who escapes the military regime tyranny to obtain refuge in the United Sates. He is quite successful as an entrepreneur and starts a corporation as a construction company. Very ambitious and crafty in exploiting his clients weaknesses, he makes the company grow fast while also using his girlfriend for that end, until a catastrophe strikes when a school building walk bridge built by him collapses, and a grand jury indicts him for murder of schoolchildren upon believing that the collapse occurred as a result of use of inferior materials followed by submitting fake inspection. As the young man got wind of possibility of indictment, he escaped into Thailand and was on his way to hide in Burma, but the FBI was chasing him. Will he be caught and brought back in the United States to stand trial? Will he be able to turn his life around? Find out by reading this new novel by Dan Sharma. It is a fast-moving saga that takes you back and forth to Burma, Thailand, and the United States. The novel is a poignant portrayal that brings out intense human emotions and reflection of the meaning and purpose of life.

Beyond Price

2015-10-08
Beyond Price

Author: J. David Velleman

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

ISBN: 9781783741670

Category: Philosophy

Page: 232

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In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where talk of suicide is not, and he raises moral objections to anonymous donor conception. In their place, Velleman champions a morality of valuing personhood over happiness in making end-of-life decisions, and respecting the personhood of future children in making decisions about procreation. These controversial views are defended with philosophical rigor while remaining accessible to the general reader. Written over Velleman's 30 years of undergraduate teaching in bioethics, the essays have never before been collected and made available to a non-academic audience. They will open new lines of debate on issues of intense public interest.

THE ILLUSION … OF BEING PART OF AN ILLUSION

THE ILLUSION … OF BEING PART OF AN ILLUSION

Author: Adrian Gabriel Dumitru

Publisher: Adrian Gabriel Dumitru

ISBN:

Category: Self-Help

Page: 131

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Identifying the illusion is not enough. But smiling is sometimes the only … option. You see … when we connect to people, we also connect to their inner worlds. And we see so, so many ideas, emotions, perceptions … such a large spectrum … that we don’t really understand most of the times. Sometimes … we ignore them. Sometimes .. we connect to those universes .. believing they are real and we somehow become part of them. No one ever told us … that we don’t have to believe that something is … real. We could simple look at the image from the front of our eyes … just as we look at a beautiful painting, asking ourselves what is the meaning that the artist had in mind when created that scene?! And now the question is …. who is the artist behind the illusion?! What is the meaning of the illusion?! How do we recognize this illusion if it said that all we see it’s an illusion?! How can we get out of such stories, repeated on and on and on?! Is there any theory that we should know regarding the illusions?! What do we understand seeing and connecting to the human being spectrum?! Well … i simple smile. I used to analyze and define a lot my life and everything that happened around myself, until the day when i realized i am a prisoner … But it was all so weird … cause i was the prisoner, the guardian of the prison, but also the prison itself. I was all … so how could i get rid of that?! And all the time i was remembering … that it’s all and illusion. That is the moment when i had the power to smile again … but being so silly, it all took such a long time to realize it. I was spending my life in a prison with invisible walls, jumping from my illusions to other’s people illusory worlds. I was simple replacing an illusion with another illusion … believing i escaped from the illusion. And still … I was having a weird feeling … that i was living the illusion of being part of an illusion. Each time a new story. And a new one. … and another one.