Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.” - Haruki Murakami Fighting against the boxer Vasiliy Lomachenko is often referred to as “entering the matrix” in reference to the famous scene in which time dilates to the extent that Neo is able to dodge bullets. After Messi hexed his whole defence, Espanyol manager Qique Sanchez Flores remarked that Messi “stops time.” Legend has it that Hockey great Wayne Gretzky saw the game in slow motion. Are these ideas simply the folklore of sport, or might they be touching on something deeper? Surely modern physics with its pure and mathematical space-time has no room for such fantasies.
Wonderful overview of the role that temporality plays in ecol. psychology! Just a quick remark about Plato and Kant: Neither of them thought that space and time were objective properties of the world, in particular not Kant, who builds his entire metaphysics around them being "Anschauungsformen". Accordingly, when Gibson talks about time, I read him more in rejecting the dichotomy between "time is objectively real" and "time is an Anschauungsform", though the position he arrives at comes with its own set of problems (for instance, can events be objectively real even though time isn't?)
Wonderful overview of the role that temporality plays in ecol. psychology! Just a quick remark about Plato and Kant: Neither of them thought that space and time were objective properties of the world, in particular not Kant, who builds his entire metaphysics around them being "Anschauungsformen". Accordingly, when Gibson talks about time, I read him more in rejecting the dichotomy between "time is objectively real" and "time is an Anschauungsform", though the position he arrives at comes with its own set of problems (for instance, can events be objectively real even though time isn't?)