1, 2, 3 in a hurry
time flies we rush with?
New Short-Posts …
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Multiple Clock Principle
Multiple Clock Principle (deutsche Version) While technically manufactured clocks display time continuously across many scales—from milliseconds to the calendar year—biological clocks tick differently. There are many different types, each of which displays time very specifically only at certain scales. Neuroscientist Dean Buonomano…
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One Sun, Many Days
One Sun, Many Days (deutsche Version) Sunrise and daybreak refer to one and the same phenomenon. Yet we speak of the one sun that appears again and again in the morning and the countable different days that follow one another. This antagonistic…
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Questionable what-is-it questions
Questionable what-is-it questions (deutsche Version) We have a great competence in dealing with time. We often forget that this competence is not innate, but is learned with difficulty in the course of socialization. Despite this competence, the question that Augustine asked himself…
New items with reflections about time …
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Committed to the Moment
The Commitment to the Moment (deutsche Version) „There are three points in time: the right one, the missed one, and the premature one.“ – (Stan Nadolny) – The compulsion to choose between the many options the world offers, of which usually only…
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Ambivalence
Ambivalence of the Experience of Time (deutsche Version) “Duration and flow are formally one and the same, and yet the lived meaning is reversed from one to the other..” – (Friedrich Kümmel) – Everything that happens brings about change. Something comes into…
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Beginnings
Beginnings (deutsche Version) “The system always thinks of its beginning from the middle.” – (Niklas Luhmann) – Determining time must begin at some point; it needs a beginning from which it starts. An interested and at least partially involved observer marks a…
New brief descriptions of the time concepts of relevant authors …
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Bieri (en)
Peter Bieri (deutsche Version) Under the pseudonym Pascal Mercier Peter Bieri presents concepts of time in his 1995 novel „Perlmanns Schweigen.“ Therein is expressed the idea that a differentiated experience of time takes place in the medium of language, in which the…
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Buonomano (en)
Dean Buonomano (deutsche Version) Buonomano points to the plurality of uses of the term „time.“ For his purposes, he distinguishes three meanings: natural time (time as a medium or dimension of nature), clock time (the time of the physicist), and subjective time…
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Colpe (en)
Carsten Colpe (deutsche Version) Colpe has presented a stage theory of the historical development toward a concept of time in ancient civilizations converging to our understanding. He initially distinguishes two independent lines of development, namely the discovery and cultural recording of historically…