TCOM 331 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Flashforward, Alarm Clock, Cubism

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Telecommunications
• Course: TCOM 331
• Professor: Tim Underhill

Document Summary

What is time: we do not know what time is. All we know is how to experience ( it) : we can measure time but we cant define it, we can live in the present but when we try to define the present we run into problems. Subjective time: felt time , how you may experience an event as long or short. How long or short you perceive an event. The more involved we are in an event the shorter it seems to be and vise versa. Duration as a vertical vector ex: the duration of a roller coaster may seem longer than the actual event. The confusion about an experienced duration is mainly due to our assumption that is a subgroup of objective time. Though we organize our lives by the clock we experience time more by the quality of what we do. Because this is boring we tend to check the clock frequently which brings.