Can Time Be Saved From Physics?

… Callender believes these attempts to save time are too limited because physics can rarely account for human experience. He argues that a real reconciliation of manifest time with the time of science must be achieved from the other direction—starting from the human understanding of time, and utilizing all the sciences, including biology, neuroscience, psychology, and anthropology to create a more comprehensive model. ...

​... Accepting the view of many scientists that time is ultimately an illusion, is not an option for Callender, however. As he wrote at the close of his book, in some very loose and coarse-grained sense, manifest time might indeed be called an illusion without any harm done. "However, for many of its aspects, it’s a bit like calling our impression of a shape an illusion," says Callender, "and that seems wrong." ...

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