What a difference a day makes… time

Nothing here is what it seems.

“You mean this isn’t real?” – Neo, The Matrix [*P.K. Dick had a clue. ]

“The fact that AI can so easily fool humans visually as well as through text (and according to some, has already passed the well-known Turing Test) shows that we are not far from fully immersive worlds populated with simulated AI characters that seem (and perhaps even think they are) conscious.” CNN.

Witness the mind stream.

The Philip K. Dick Festival 2024 will be held in Fort Morgan, Colorado on June 13 – 16. For more information, visit the Philip K. Dick Festival site: Link.

25th Anniversary of ‘The Matrix’ – trivia. IndieWire.

On a related note, this Minority Report adaptation – is getting good press.

Written by David Haig and directed by Max Webster, the gripping tale follows Dame Julia Anderton as she races against time to save herself from her own pre-crime system, having been accused of pre-murder. Link.

Mind Games – Sci-Fi

Bodies: Netflix Promo. Four detectives. Four timelines. One body. To save Britain’s future, they’ll need to solve the murder that altered the course of history first. [Rated for gore. Autopsy sets the scene.]

3 Body Problem: A young woman’s fateful decision in 1960s China reverberates across space and time to a group of brilliant scientists in the present day. As the laws of nature unravel before their eyes five former colleagues reunite to confront the greatest threat in humanity’s history.

The aliens are given an invitation and they’re coming. Netflix Promo.

Minority Report. About that self-driving car. Inverse.

When the time check does not compute

Dyschronometria: condition of cerebellar dysfunction in which an individual cannot accurately estimate the amount of time that has passed (i.e., distorted time perception).

From NPR: “Jeannie Campbell has dyschronometria and has been losing track of time for years. At work, she left her desk just to check the bulletin board for a second. And an hour later, her colleagues found her still standing there and reading it.”

Researcher Ruth Ogden: When people are talking about distortions to time, what they’re talking about is how they feel about time in comparison with something else – their memory representation of time or some external temporal marker like a clock.’ Link.

Music and emotions. Tagging life events with a song. “Changes in emotion evoked by music created boundaries between episodes that made it easier for people to remember what they had seen and when they had seen it.” Link.

Not so fast. A Cognitive Dissonance trigger is identified. Meaning me, personally. I am not on board with the opening line for the aforementioned music article: “Time flows in a continuous stream – “

Nope.

I’ve had too many experiences outside of ‘normal’ time. So my view is based upon personal time shift events and research into NDE, OBE, Paranormal, and UFO experiences.

One person who stands out – in relation to time related anomalies is the author of Picnic at Hanging Rock. Joan Lindsay had an interesting relationship with time. Watches didn’t work for her. Beyond that, clocks also malfunctioned, and people around her experienced watch and/or time related anomalies.

National Library of Australia Literature Link. Her book is a classic, the story, hard to forget because the ending is left up in the air.

Movie Critic Roger Ebert gave a reissued version of the film a top review. Of note, Director Peter Weir set an intention for the atmosphere:
“We worked very hard,” Weir told an interviewer for Sight & Sound, “at creating an hallucinatory, mesmeric rhythm, so that you lost awareness of facts, you stopped adding things up, and got into this enclosed atmosphere. I did everything in my power to hypnotize the audience away from the possibility of solutions.” Link.

The 2018 series, available on Amazon, also had positive reviews.
Film rating at Rotten Tomatoes.

Here is a previous blog entry regarding the time shift reference related to Picnic at Hanging Rock and Joan Lindsay. Link.

In regard to time – here is where I flow – citing a physics site. Source.

• No one knows whether time is discrete or continuous. It is even possible that time is not a fundamental attribute of the physical universe at all, but is instead an emergent phenomena that only appears when you have a large population of interacting particles. There are relevant Wikipedia articles on the problem of time and the thermal time hypothesis.
• If time is discrete, the “quanta” of time must be so short that you could not possibly notice them. There are a whole set of open questions concerning the perception of time, but they are part of psychology rather than fundamental physics.

Joan Lindsay tried to convey a knowing in her writing that manifested in her private and public life: “Time is not on a clock.”