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Temporal updating, behavioral learning, and the phenomenology of time-consciousness

Genevieve Hayman, Bryce Huebner

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2019 DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x19000517 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed
Topics Philosophy of mind
Key points Argues that Hoerl and McCormack's claim that the temporal updating system represents the world only as present creates puzzles for temporal phenomenology, and proposes that reinforcement learning models imply temporal updating has a minimal temporal structure, which helps clarify what it means to experience the world as temporally structured.

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Abstract: Hoerl & McCormack claim that the temporal updating system only represents the world as present. This generates puzzles regarding the phenomenology of temporal experience. We argue that recent models of reinforcement learning suggest that temporal updating must have a minimal temporal structure; and we suggest that this helps to clarify what it means to experience the world as temporally structured.

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