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All scholars who have investigated psychological time have stressed its elusive nature. On the one hand, we have a “smooth” or “effortless” experience of the flow of events. On the other hand, in spite of its familiarity, the temporal perception is hard to grasp. According to Gibson, “there is no such thing as the perception of time, but only the perception of events and locomotions”. In a quite similar way, Michonl has suggested that time should not be considered as “a property of the existential mode of things”, but as the “conscious experiential product” of the processes that allow human beings to maintain a dynamic, interactive relation with the flow of events in the external world.
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Cardaci, M. (2000). The mental clock model. 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_3
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