Chris Nunn
Albert Einstein's relativity theory has been tested to all sorts of limits and has never yet failed. It shows beyond reasonable doubt that what one observer may see as simultaneous events in his/her 'present' can appear to another observer as separated in time. Similarly, the usual interpretation of the Zeno effect is to suppose that the measurer is stationary and the wave function is flowing past its observational 'window', but maybe what's actually going on is that the measurer is the mover and the wave stationary. This chapter describes a couple of oddities about human relationship to time. The first oddity is highlighted by the moving coloured dot illusion. People's brains do a whole lot of work on the momentary physical happenings before a person gets to experience them consciously. The second oddity goes by 'pre-sponse', 'presentiment', 'feeling the future' and, though undramatic in itself, is totally at odds with the current world view of 'man a machine' aficionados.
Routledge eBooks•Oct 16, 2015•0 citations