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I think @vgr is doing some of his most fascinating work this year https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/05/07/leaking-into-the-future/">https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/05/0...

Leaking into the Future

Liminality is hard to navigate, and one can be forgiven for flailing gracelessly when attempting to do so. What makes me impatient though, is people not even recognizing liminality when it is all a…

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/05/07/leaking-into-the-future/

I think @vgr is doing some of his most fascinating work this year https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/05/0...

imagination and mental simulation, "mental time travel," etc is one of the most important features of human thought. it is also intricately tied to time perception

hence one understanding of trauma is primarily a disruption of experienced temporal properties as well as the internal collapse of the ability to simulate forward into the future https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166378/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...

What is a “sense of foreshortened future?” A phenomenological study of trauma, trust, and time

One of the symptoms of trauma is said to be a “sense of foreshortened future.” Without further qualification, it is not clear how to interpret this. In this paper, we offer a phenomenological account...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4166378/

another analogy is to what happens in fiction -- noticeably pynchon -- when the working models of reality used in the novel suddenly collapse http://theamericanreader.com/review-thomas-pynchons-bleeding-edge/">https://theamericanreader.com/review-th...

this too is distinguished by severe temporal distortions as well as interruptions of the ability to coherently link together past, present, and future

more see https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/16/temporal-bandwith-social-media-alan-jacobs">https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...

To survive our high-speed society, cultivate 'temporal bandwidth' | Alan Jacobs

Our era of relentless social media and soundbites has caused us to lose sight of the past, and future

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/16/temporal-bandwith-social-media-alan-jacobs

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