The Instant, Memory and Resonance : Revisiting Lived Time
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines the interface between lived time, neural rhythms, and the Chronon Field Φ(x) while maintaining a strict separation between these three levels. Neural oscillations, sensory entrainment, attentional fluctuations, memory dynamics, reaction times, and psychophysical temporal windows belong first to standard neuroscience. None of these phenomena constitutes a direct measurement of Φ or evidence for a Chronon coupling. The paper therefore begins from the explicit distinction: lived time ≠ neural rhythm ≠ Chronon Field. The Chronon framework retains its established operational constraints: General Relativity remains unchanged, no additional gravitational stress-energy is introduced in the minimal baseline, the transformation Φ→λΦ represents an unobservable multiplicative gauge freedom, and only gauge-safe differential quantities may carry physical content. This immediately excludes any direct identification between EEG or MEG frequency bands and an absolute Chronon frequency. Neural oscillations and perceptual durations cannot be converted into absolute values of Φ. Instead, the paper formulates a residual experimental strategy. Stimulus properties, sensory latencies, neurophysiological state, peripheral physiology, behavioral variables, and instrumental effects must first be modeled using standard neuroscience. Only the remaining residual structure may then be compared with an independently defined Chronon exposure. For a future preregistered protocol, the proposed primary outcome is a circular residual neural phase. Measures such as phase-locking value (PLV), inter-trial phase coherence (ITPC), weighted phase-lag index (wPLI), and related synchronization metrics remain secondary outcomes. A crucial identifiability requirement is that the Chronon exposure must be defined independently of the neural signal. It may arise from a preregistered theoretical metrological model or from an external clock-based residual measured simultaneously. EEG, MEG, behavioral data, or the primary neural outcome must never be used retrospectively to reconstruct the exposure that is supposed to explain them. Any signal surviving these controls would first constitute a structured neurophysiological residual, not a Chronon detection. The article remains a C0 contribution and provides an operational scaffold for a future preregistered neurochronometric study without assuming a universal Chronon effect size or treating subjective time as a direct physical observable.
Author: Brécheteau, Benjamin
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7159811765
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