Windows on Time: Unlocking the Temporal Microstructure of Experience

Abstract Each of our sensory modalities — vision, touch, taste, etc. works on a slightly different timescale, with differing temporal resolutions and processing lag. This raises the question how, or indeed whether, these streams are co-ordinated ‘bound’ into coherent multisensory experience perceptual ‘now’. In this paper I evaluate one account how binding is achieved: windows hypothesis , concluding that, in its simplest form, inadequate to capture variety phenomena. Rather, evidence suggests existence more complex structure which multiple overlapping support distinct functional mechanisms. To aid precise formulation such views, propose taxonomy window types their characteristics that turn promising avenues for future empirical philosophical research. conclude by examining some implications multi-window models metaphysics perception generally.