On believing that time does not flow, but thinking that it seems to

Abstract

Hoerl & McCormack (H&M) posit two systems - the temporal updating system and the temporal reasoning system - and suggest that they explain an inherent contradiction in people's naïve theory of time. We suggest there is no contradiction. Something does, however, require explanation: the tension between certain sophisticated beliefs about time, and certain phenomenological states or beliefs about those phenomenological states. The temporal updating mechanism posited by H&M may contribute to this tension.