Starting from the Nature of Time: The Strategic Concept within the Cognitive System - A World Model via Simplified Mapping
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper proposes and systematically argues for a transformative perspective: time is not an objectively real fundamental dimension, but a conceptual tool of numerical analysis evolved by human intelligence systems to handle the infinite complexity of the physical world. By integrating cognitive neuroscience, information theory, and "timeless" theories in contemporary physics, we first provide detailed proof that the concept of time as purely a numerical analysis tool can uniformly resolve core paradoxes in quantum mechanics. Building on this, we naturally extend this understanding to the concept of space, positing that spacetime itself is a numerical analysis conceptual tool, and revealing the nature of emergence phenomena from the micro to macro scales. Finally, we point out that numerical analysis conceptualization is a universal strategy for human cognition to process complex information. This recognition provides a novel conceptual framework for understanding physical reality and indicates a new direction for the future development of physics.
Author: Xiang, Hui
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7104556363
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