Paweł Gładziejewski
Affiliation: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Category: Philosophy
Keywords: global states of consciousness, flow of time, psychedelics, meditation, A-theory/B-theory
Date: Wednesday 3rd of September
Time: 18:00
Location: Room 154 (154)
View the full session: Temporal Consciousness
Our conscious experience seemingly involves the subjective sense or feeling of the passage of time. However, several authors have denied that such an aspect of experience exists. This paper investigates acute disturbances of normal temporal experience accompanying deep meditative and psychedelic states. I argue that such experiences of altered temporality provide phenomenal contrast cases to ordinary passage phenomenology, allowing us to establish the existence of the latter and making it amenable to theorizing. I propose that subjective temporal flow arises from a process of temporal synthesis through which consciousness integrates past, present, and future.