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Essays on time perception

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Nov 10, 2022ACX

Can People Be Honestly Wrong About Their Own Experiences?

Scott Alexander explores whether people can be honestly mistaken about their own experiences, presenting counterexamples and attempting to reconcile them with the idea that we can't be wrong about our immediate subjective experiences.

13 min read 1,886 words

Mar 10, 2013SSC

Good vibrations and subjective temporal granularity

Scott Alexander explores subjective temporal granularity, its relation to meditation, and how it might allow for intervening in thought construction.

7 min read 1,018 words

consciousness meditation perception