Heavily Rippling Time - Time Displacement Woven by Fluctuations of Speed (1890s) Bergson, "Time and Freedom"

Heavily Rippling Time - Time Displacement Woven by Fluctuations of Speed (1890s) Bergson, "Time and Freedom"
What Bergson calls duration is not the homogeneous time measured by a clock, but a lived time that continues to flow in layers inside the consciousness. Speed or slowness there is a qualitative experience independent of physical velocity, which expands and contracts with attention, emotion, and memory. Physical speed is a quantitative definition that measures distance and time simultaneously, but subjective speed oscillates according to the density and rhythm of duration, resulting in the phenomenon of "feeling fast" or "feeling slow" at the same physical speed. Studies in psychology and neuroscience have reported "subjective time dilation," in which time feels longer during fear and concentration, and have demonstrated that moving stimuli feel subjectively longer than stationary stimuli. These findings indicate that subjective time is a mental structure generated by brain processing and stimulus integration, and has a different layer than physical time. Bergson criticized th
e failure to distinguish this dual structure and to spatialize time, which leads to a misunderstanding of the nature of the experienced world. The misperception of speed is an everyday yet profound philosophical phenomenon that shows that external time and time as duration are founded on different principles.