Our conception of time – of the present moment, the past and the future, and the links as well as the discontinuities between them – is initially formed by our own perceptual apparatus, and encoded in the amazing internal machinery which enables and constrains our cognition of the world. The elasticity and swiftness of mental processes is remarkable, but all of them have their neurologically inscribed parameters, and a pace which cannot be accelerated without loss of function or meaning. If we play a record at excessive speed, the sounds emanating from it do not add up to a melody or music. If
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