Planktons in the Sea: A Few Questions Regarding the Qualities of Time - Journal #27 September 2011 - e-flux
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Planktons in the Sea: A Few Questions Regarding the Qualities of Time - Journal #27 September 2011 - e-flux
Saved by Kalyani Tupkary
Time isn’t like the other senses, Eagleman says. Sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing are relatively easy to isolate in the brain. They have discrete functions that rarely overlap: it’s hard to describe the taste of a sound, the color of a smell, or the scent of a feeling. … But a sense of time is threaded through everything we perceive.
Pemmaraju’s story urges us to consider the occasional senses of temporal dislocation that we all experience from time to time—instances of timecode drift within our consciousness, small insurgencies of slave clocks against a tyrannical master clock.