Temporal networks exploring the interrelation between time, subject, world and others

<p dir="ltr">If you look out of the window you can watch the world go by; everything is constantly changing, including us, as we press on, ever forward, through life. This is how we naturally experience the world; we move away from the past, towards the future and experience each moment at a time; we remember the past and anticipate the future. But is this how the world is in reality? My thesis seeks to shed new light on this old metaphysical debate using a phenomenological method. Existing temporal models appear to lack a way to account for temporal experience as a smooth continuum and fail to acknowledge the importance of the active human subject as a constituting factor. My research puts the human subject at the heart of temporal experience and highlights the need to challenge existing temporal metaphors in order to move forward with our understanding of time. With a grounding in Husserlian inner time-consciousness, I put forward an intersubjective temporal network model which stands at the intersection between phenomenology, metaphysics, and cognitive science.</p>