Time as Experience/Experience as Temporality

Just in Time—Dreamless Sleep Experience as Pure Subjective Temporality

In this commentary, I propose a strategy for extending Evan Thompson’s argument on the existence of dreamless sleep experience. My first aim is to show that the Indian debate on reports of having slept peacefully is importantly similar to debates in scientific dream research and contemporary Western philosophy on the trustworthiness of dream reports. This analogy leads to a surprising conclusio...

Physical Time and Intrinsic Temporality

Physical theories distinguish two notions of time: reversible, homogeneous parameter time (relativity theory and quantum mechanics) and irreversible, directed time (thermodynamics). Both concepts differ fundamentally from what we define implicitly by using the tenses and temporal adverbs in language. The tempora past, present, and future hinge upon one uniquely exposed moment: the now. The now ...

Diversity as a marker of the temporality of the city

About time: Temporality in interaction

Ever since the inception of the modern computer, researchers and designers alike have been interested in the effects of system delays on users. The current study was conducted in order to examine the most central issues to the field of temporality in interaction, and presents a consolidation of a selection of publications on the subject. A distinction between two types of interactive systems, d...

Optimization with the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations as constraints

In this paper, optimal distributed control of the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations is considered. The control problem involves the minimization of a measure of the distance between the velocity field and a given target velocity field. A mixed numerical method involving a quasi-Newton algorithm, a novel calculation of the gradients and an inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes solver, to find the opt...