ABSTRACT
Chronosense may sound like a fancy, if nonsensical word, but its meaning is pretty straightforward. Deriving from the world of neuroscience, chronosense signifies our human sense experience of time. (Chrono- comes from the Greek for “time”—familiar to you, no doubt, in such words as chronology and chronicle.) Our perception of time is a neuropsychological process, in other words, and so, rather than being time-bound (ironically enough), time is entirely subject to variability. Attend a riveting movie and time passes briskly. Attend a boring lecture, by contrast, and time lags and drags, slow and sluggish as a clichéd snail. We shape time in our own image, we might say.
