Abstract
It is important to understand that our perception of time has nothing to do with what the nature of time is, just as our perception of color has nothing to do with the nature of light or hearing a sound with the nature of sound. We learn how the body organizes rhythms, what clocks the cells have and how and where the sense of time is generated in the brain. Finally, it is explained why, for many people in old age, time appears to pass more quickly. A close connection to the nature of time (see Chap. 7) becomes clear.
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Cf. Fred Mast, “Black Mamba oder die Macht der Imagination”, Herder 2020, pp. 53 and 54 (German).
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See the following footnote, page 3, Fig. 1.1.
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The book by G. Eichele and H. Oster “Auf der Suche nach der biologischen Zeit”, Springer 2020, (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-61544-7) provides an excellent detailed overview (German). A compact overview by Eichele et al can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.201500026. An easy-to-read introduction in English can be found here: https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/68556
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G. Eichele, H. Oster, loc. cit. p. 111., cf also https://biologydictionary.net/suprachiasmatic-nucleus/
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M. Wittmann, The inner Sense of Time: How the brain creates a representation of duration, Nature Rev Neurosci 14 (3), 217–233, see also https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3452, siehe auch: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283617449_The_inner_sense_of_time_How_the_brain_creates_a_representation_of_duration.
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Scott M. Hitchcock, “T-computers and the Origin of Time in the Brain”, NeuroQuantology 2003; 4:393–403, cf. https://www.jneuroquantology.com/index.php/journal/article/view/26/26
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From 1996 to 2006, I kept a diary during the 10 years it took to build my next company (Ormecon), years that were extremely busy, financially risky, and demanding, with enormous additional progress in research and marketing my new “Organic Metal” technology. Every few days or weeks, I would write down my thoughts on the progress or the constant setbacks, and I dealt with my stress in this way.
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cf. my book “The Call of the Cranes”, Goldmann 2020 (https://www.bernhard-wessling.com/the-call-of-the-cranes-short-intro).
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cf. my book “The Jump into the Cold Water”, scheduled to be issued by Eulenspiegel-Verlagsgruppe in 2023 (German).
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F. T. Bruss, L. Rüschendorf, “On the Perception of Time”, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40850494_On_the_Perception_of_Time, Gerontology, 56 (4), 361–370 (2010), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40850494_On_the_Perception_of_Time. cf also https://lifehacker.com/why-time-feels-like-it-s-flying-by-and-how-to-slow-it-1745852093
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https://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/plus220730196/Psychologie-Was-Ihr-Zeitempfinden-ueber-Sie-verraet.html WELT online from 27. 11. 2020, accessed via “WELT plus” subscription (German).
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B. Wessling, Der Ruf der Kraniche (German edition Goldmann 2020), see also http://www.bernhard-wessling.com/the-call-of-the-cranes-short-info, English edition “The Call of the Cranes”, (Springer 2022), see also https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-98283-6.
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