Your article references the subjective experience of the passage of time, the kappa temporal/spatial dilation effect, and the user interface wait interval model (progress bar). Auditory models of this also seem to be extant and much of time perception study seems even to have originated with other modalities such as sound continuity/discontinuity sense (from Ch. XV, “Perception of Time” in James’ Principles). May I ask, are there haptic equivalents for either the kappa effect or the user progress bar visual? Do we see this subjective timescale appreciation in human touch as well?
Your article also states, “We believe that the perception of time depends on the nature of the stimulus (filled or empty) rather than on the speed of motion or on the distance covered by the stimulus” (Ziat & Saoud, 2013, p. 3-4). I too believe this to be very close to the perception of time - the concept of a timescale seems to originate from the human need to conceive semantic intervals within which we might discover meaning (something Chomsky termed elegantly as “discrete infinities” in Rieber, 2010). But do you think perhaps this need and this sense is not visuospatial or auditory since it can take on any modality? We sort of superpose our attentional frequency atop the presentational frequency of events in time – the latter does not change, but our perception of it feels dilated or constricted relative to our affective estimate of the interval’s relevancy and meaningfulness to us. Whether the gaps are filled or empty (continuous/discontinuous) seems less critical than how we perceive the interval (is it distracting from or deferring fulfillment, or is it aiding determination of our arrival at fulfillment). I have come to believe that our anticipation of undiscovered self-relevancy (which affects the rate of our focal frequency) within the temporal interval governs the apparent velocity of any transit of that interval – what do you think?
Conference Paper The Progress Bar as a Metaphor for Time Continuity and Discontinuity
Thank you Mounia. I think you have very intuitively described the relation for me (the potential for events within the interval dilates time subjectively, regardless of modality). This is very good – and fits well with growing excitement concerning several of your dissertation’s many tenets (I am up to the Tactos portion now in the original document). I will think about what you have shared and begin considering possible haptic equivalents to experimentally study time dilation sensation – this sounds very intriguing, thank you again.
Thank you very much friend Jagadeesh. I agree that we are bounded by the dimensions with which we reason, and time is one such dimension. Lately, so many insights from yourself (cellular signal propagation - I hope to post questions on your articles this week, as I have been studying them), Mounia (haptic zoom and inferential timescales), and time perception in general (from James to Zimbardo and some wonderful articles in Scientific American in "A Question of Time" available on Kindle, etc) have boosted confidence that our cognition is fully founded on temporal inference. It seems why we seem doubtful even when we are most certain - because if we use bounded time to delineate meaning, we obtain certainty by distancing ourselves from doubt, not reducing proximity toward certainty). It seems to be in articles on spatial coupling within proprioception, and is maybe the foundation of equilibrioception too - consciousness may be closer to elemental physics than we give it credit for. Your work and Mounia's work are so helpful for me. What if we should let our concepts of dimensional reason drop away (space, color, etc) as we approach the idea of sensory zoom, spatial estimation, and conscious affectation? Then what we have left is solely time, subdivided by frequency in the mind, eliciting a feeling of numbing consciousness. A favorite article of mine is by E. Roy John, and his thoughts seem more plausible each day. What we see as space may be things just out of reach in time, deferred from our grasp and affect, and our minds may mainly be amazing factor-intercept prediction machines? That would be something. Timing may really be "everything".
Reference
John, E. R. (2003). A Theory of Consciousness. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 12(6), 244-250. doi:10.1046/j.0963-7214.2003.01271.x.
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