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Real Time, Mathematical Time and Psychological Time

In 1908 the English philosopher John McTaggart Ellis said "It will be convenient to begin our enquiry by asking whether anything existent can possess the characteristic of being in time. I shall endeavour to prove that it cannot" (12). And yet we still suffer from a conviction that has no supporting evidence whatsoever. As humans we operate using a psychological model of time which involves the past, present, and future. At home in a chair we consider ourselves to be motionless whilst travelling forwards through time. We imagine ourselves to be stationary observers, and we forget that our brains are operating via the motion of electrical signals. We forget that we can only experience our thoughts and produce the elaboration of psychological time because of the internalised motion that drives our consciousness. With practice however, one can gain an awareness of "the flow of thoughts", and thence an awareness of our own internalised motion. We can then liken our brains to clocks, and this new awareness of internal motion supplants the notion of motion through time. We then become conscious of timeless space and its physical existence in this present moment, and see at last that the past and future are block-time abstractions constructed by our brains. We see that eternity does not extend infinitely back into this past, and does not extend infinitely ahead into that future. The eternity is in this present moment. Eternity is now in the present moment.
Real time is clocks run, mathematical time is a symbol t in equations. Symbol t represents duration and numerical order of events in timeless space. Smallest unit of time is Planck time ( ). In Planck time photon pass Planck distance ( ) of timeless space. Psychological time is a mind structure through which observer experience motion in timeless space. Distinguishing between these three times leads us into atemporal experience of motion.

Temporal and Atemporal (Timeless) Experience of Motion

Motion runs in timeless space. Ordinary we experience it through psychological time. This experience is in time, temporal and indirect. Information about motion enters eyes, than is elaborated in psychological time, experience follows. Information about motion is deformed by psychological time. Information line perception – experience of the observer is broken.

motion - perception elaboration (in psychological time) - temporal experience of the observer

Once we become aware of psychological time we can experience motion directly as it runs in timeless space. This experience is atemporal (timeless) and direct. Information about motion between perception and experience is unbroken; it is not deformed by psychological time.

motion - perception (eyes) - atemporal experience of the observer

Development of atemporal experience is essential for further development of physics. It gives a scientist an objective view about timeless nature of physical world. Temporal experience is subjective in a sense that passes through psychological time of the scientist. Atemporal experience is objective in a sense that information about motion between perception and experience is unbroken. Psychological time has an immense impact on physics. Timeless space is physical reality that observer experiences as a present moment, future and past are not physical realities; they are part of the mind.
You take a pendulum, put it in front of you and observe it for awhile. First few minutes you will experience pendulum moving in space and time, by observing loner, you will see that pendulum moves in space only. Close your eyes and you will see image of pendulum moving in your inner space. Physical pendulum and image of pendulum created by your brain both move in same physical space. Also psychological time as the mind structure of the brain exists in the same physical space. By longer observing of pendulum motion psychological time will vanish. You will enter timeless experience of pendulum motion. You become aware of psychological time that is part of the mind. You will enter in a state of a pure observer that is consciousness itself (13).

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http://www.fqxi.org/data/forum-attachments/TIME_IS_DERIVED_FROM_MOTION__Sorli_2009.pdf