Clocked and perceived time

In the previous chapters, we have addressed the question of performance as it is measured by objective time. Objective time is measuring, by the means of a tool that divides, in equal units of measurement, a duration between an imminent future and an imminent past whose parts are in a continuous persistent flow of being.

This definition of objective time shows us that time is the effect of a movement of existence that takes us from an undetermined future to the state of a frozen past by the means of a constant present. It is objective inasmuch as a third-party being is used as a witness to this passing of being from one state to the other by dividing it into equal units of measurement. This is the reason why objective ...

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