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Temporal updating, behavioral learning, and the phenomenology of time-consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2019

Genevieve Hayman  and
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Genevieve Hayman
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Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC20057. gh498@georgetown.eduBryce.Huebner@Georgetown.edubrycehuebner.weebly.com
Bryce Huebner
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Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC20057. gh498@georgetown.eduBryce.Huebner@Georgetown.edubrycehuebner.weebly.com
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Abstract

Hoerl & McCormack claim that the temporal updating system only represents the world as present. This generates puzzles regarding the phenomenology of temporal experience. We argue that recent models of reinforcement learning suggest that temporal updating must have a minimal temporal structure; and we suggest that this helps to clarify what it means to experience the world as temporally structured.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e254
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