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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Comparative Psychology

Background:

  • Hoerl & McCormack's theory on temporal behavior emphasizes awareness of time.
  • This theory omits the crucial role of psychological presence in the 'moment now'.
  • Temporal non-stationarity is intrinsically linked to the subjective experience of 'nowness'.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of psychological presence ('nowness') on temporal experience.
  • To explore whether the subjective experience of time, particularly 'nowness', differs across species.
  • To critically evaluate the universality of temporal perception mechanisms.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical analysis of existing models of temporal cognition.
  • Review of empirical evidence on cross-species temporal perception.
  • Conceptual integration of psychological presence into theories of time flow.

Main Results:

  • Psychological presence ('nowness') is identified as a key, yet previously overlooked, component of temporal experience.
  • Evidence suggests that the fundamental linkage of past and future through 'nowness' may not be species-specific.
  • The subjective experience of time's flow appears to share core characteristics across different species.

Conclusions:

  • The concept of 'nowness' is central to understanding temporal non-stationarity and time flow.
  • Current evidence does not strongly support significant differences in the fundamental experience of time across species.
  • Further critical evaluation is needed to confirm the cross-species universality of temporal experience.