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The Compleat Time Experiencer

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Time, Mind, and Behavior

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In a well known article about consciousness Thomas Nagel (1974) raised the fascinating question what it would be like to be a bat. A similar question can be asked with respect to human time consciousness. If our experience of time would turn out to be something that is conceptually unitary, in the sense that it can be defined by a distinct set of related events, attributes, or processes, then it must mean something, however little, to be a Time Experiencer.

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