On believing that time does not flow, but thinking that it seems to.

Behav Brain Sci

The Centre for Time and Department of Philosophy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW2006,

Published: December 2019

Hoerl & McCormack (H&M) posit two systems - the temporal updating system and the temporal reasoning system - and suggest that they explain an inherent contradiction in people's naïve theory of time. We suggest there is no contradiction. Something does, however, require explanation: the tension between certain sophisticated beliefs about time, and certain phenomenological states or beliefs about those phenomenological states. The temporal updating mechanism posited by H&M may contribute to this tension.

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