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A few physicists have recently made some radical proposals about the nature of physical time. These theories, in tum, relate to proposals that psychologists have made and evidence that they have collected about the nature of subjective time. Exploring these interdisciplinary connections may be fruitful.
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Gruber, R.P., Wagner, L.F., Block, R.A. (2000). Subjective Time Versus Proper (Clock) Time. In: Buccheri, R., Di Gesù, V., Saniga, M. (eds) Studies on the Structure of Time. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4285-8_5
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