Experiencing timelessness and the phenomenology of temporal flow
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Our conscious experience seemingly involves the subjective sense or feeling of the passage of time. However, in recent years, several authors have denied that such an aspect or feature of experience can be found. If the experience of the flow of time exists, it remains elusive and intangible. My aim here is to try to pin it down. For this purpose, I will investigate acute disturbances of normal temporal experience that accompany deep meditative and psychedelic states. I will argue that these experiences of altered temporality provide phenomenal contrast cases to ordinary passage phenomenology, allowing us to establish the existence of the latter and making it amenable to theorizing.
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Philosophical Psychology, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2444508
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eternalism/presentism, flow of time, meditation, psychedelics, global states of consciousness, phenomenal contrast
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Philosophical Psychology, 1-30, 2024
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