BRAIN X TIME

we must appreciate that time is not given to us from our environment; rather, our brains must create it. Though we become cognizant of events in the world through our senses, without a means to remember and relate events that are disparate in time, our experience of the world would be ephemeral. But it’s not just about being able to remember the sequence of experienced events. An appreciation of time demands that the intervals between events are encoded in the brain. It is by dint of our brain’s ability to manufacture time—to represent and remember those created intervals and to reproduce those intervals—that we have any appreciation of time at all. Since it’s up to the brain to create time, what’s wrong with the seemingly rational notion that the brain should represent time as it is—that is, with little error, being both accurate and precise?