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. 2025 Aug 13:19:1597914.
doi: 10.3389/fncom.2025.1597914. eCollection 2025.

Super special relativity

Nicholas Jordan Wagter  1
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Super special relativity

Nicholas Jordan Wagter. Front Comput Neurosci. .

Abstract

This paper proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding time perception centered on information processing in the brain. We introduce the concept of "perceptual time" as distinct from inertial clock time and develop a model relating perceptual time experience to the brain's computational capacity and information processing rate. This framework explains phenomena like time dilation and compression during intense experiences in terms of neural information processing, bridging perceptual time with physical theories of time.

Keywords: computation; framework; information processing; perception; time.

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The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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