Mentions schizophrenia towards the end of the article.
Interesting piece. Most of the supposed experts I have read think time is a conditioned mental construct rather than the result of a physiological set-up. They say it’s a product of attaching labels and explanations to memories re-presented in the left hemisphere (of predominantly right-handed people).
Iain McGilchrist wrote about this in The Master & His Emissary a few years ago. (One great book, that.) Jiddu Krishnamurti and other Eastern philosophers argue one fine case for the invention thesis, as well. And someone else (I cannot recall now) argued that it was a product of moving from hunting & gathering to agriculture and animal husbandry.
The quote in the article asserting that “People with schizophrenia “describe their world as a movie that’s segmented and they have to reconstruct the meaning of that movie, because time is not continuous for them”” is interesting because it points to a notion held by most of the leading traumatologists. Janet, van der Hart, van der Kolk, Levine, Herman, Russell, et al all said in some fashion that traumatic memories are fragmented and discontinuous.
This new research may support the very old school notion that sz and other psychoses are the results of genetic predispostions that go florid because of severe stress.
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