Antonella Tramacere

Phenomenal consciousness as an efficiency amplifier of agency: insights from time perception.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences November 13, 2025 Antonella Tramacere 1 citation

An important feature of conscious experience is the subjectivity of time. Even within short durations, ranging from milliseconds to a few seconds, time slows down in threatening situations, while it compresses during familiar tasks. Do these temporal distortions have a function? In this article, I argue that they do. Because the perceived duration of events is often in line with what seems...