My goal is to move a little away from the cognitive processes
and trying to discover "how our brain fools us" - which enough
people are working on already - and instead move into our
relationship with the everyday environment and Time and our
experiences of it.
So I'm starting from a Nervous-System-Out direction rather than
the typical Nervous-System-In [to the brain] direction. Enough
people are doing that. Staggeringly few are going in the
opposite direction, but I think I know why:
Most studies are designed to fit in a Lab, with walls and a
ceiling and floor tongue emoticon A brain fits nicely in that
environment... but the environment does not fit nicely into the
Lab.
Yes, what you mentioned about Gold is the kind of thing I'm
hoping to pull together in an unspectacular, matter-of-fact way.
My main focus is cognitive experience and a partial reclamation
of the subjective but I like that fact about Gold - and will be
happy with any other examples of that you come across.
I should look into Permutation City; it's my kind of read and
I'd love any other tidbits from it that you might have.
It bothers me that in 2015 we still ultimately "hang time off of
the fixed stars". The atomic clock creates it own time that we
base time off of, but we forget quickly that it WAS calibrated
with the Sun and Moon, just like astrologers of old. Growing up,
I would have been certain that relativistic time would be
commonplace by 2015 and it's far from it. Perhaps it is in hopes
of hanging on to a classical view of objectivity; because with
relativistic Time, accurate measuring will become increasingly
difficult and the Science would have to acknowledge the validity
of the individual perspective n some capacity other than for
pulling together statistical models of this and that.
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