I wrote my BA Thesis on "The Fallacy of the Commonplace Conception of Time". It was, in essence, an argument deconstructing the everyday way in which the common considers time. It was a rather ambitious project for an undergrad, apparently, and I was told by numerous professors that I should simply revisit the paper and expand on it if I were to go on to graduate level.
The basic line was that the various models of time (time as river, time as ordered sequence of events) and even the fallacious idea that we experience, and live in, the present were each debunked in turn. It was a greatly enjoyable work to produce, and the defense portion of it turned more into a round table with the dept head and attending professors batting the ideas presented around. I was actually fully ignored for about 20 minutes as they chewed on it and fired back and forth.
Perhaps one of these days I will revisit it. Seems a shame to leave it as it sits.
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