The Natural Philosophy of TimeClarendon Press, 1980 - 399 Seiten |
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A watched pot never boils because of the enforced selectivity of attention to the pot , but if we are engaged with an interesting task our attention will be diverted away from clock time . Underwood argues that it is the organizational ...
A watched pot never boils because of the enforced selectivity of attention to the pot , but if we are engaged with an interesting task our attention will be diverted away from clock time . Underwood argues that it is the organizational ...
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Attention does not necessarily move by hops from one definite spot to another but rather ' by alternate diffusion and concentration , like the foot of a snail , which never leaves the surface it is traversing .
Attention does not necessarily move by hops from one definite spot to another but rather ' by alternate diffusion and concentration , like the foot of a snail , which never leaves the surface it is traversing .
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She argued that , if we focus attention on A during a short interval of time at the end of which we experience B , we can say that we are experiencing B while remembering A , in the sense of having A as a lingering sensation ( not an ...
She argued that , if we focus attention on A during a short interval of time at the end of which we experience B , we can say that we are experiencing B while remembering A , in the sense of having A as a lingering sensation ( not an ...
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UNIVERSAL TIME | 1 |
HUMAN TIME | 48 |
BIOLOGICAL TIME | 123 |
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