Title

The Battle For Time In The Brain

Abstract

All our conceptions of time spring from our brains. However, the brain itself is a structure that has evolved over several millions of years. In the process of evolution, nature often has to erect and integrate newer structures and functionalities on existing systems and capacities. I argue that many fundamental dimensions of human response such as memory, dreaming, and the persistence of the consciousness of self derive from the interplay attendant on the integration of these stages of brain development. I argue that time has played a central role in this progression. From the earliest notion of physiological time as simple duration through the complexities of the spatio-temporal coordination of action to the ability of the frontal cortex to anticipate future conditions a river runs through it and that river is time. Provocatively, I have termed these sequential epochs of evolutionary integration as the 'battle' for time in the brain.

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Publication Title

Study of Time

Volume

13

Number of Pages

65-87

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84940986399 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84940986399

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