PonderAtlas printable field sheet
Time, change and passage field sheet
Separate how time is experienced from how time is, then apply one position to travel, memory and change and record what it costs.
- Short route
- 20 minutes
- Deep route
- 50 minutes
- Revised
- 2026-07-25
20-minute route
- 2 min: Read the topic setup on the canonical guide.
- 3 min: Record an initial answer before discussion.
- 10 min: Compare two reasons and test one variation.
- 5 min: Write the strongest objection and a revised position.
50-minute extension
- 5 min: Silent reading and first position.
- 15 min: Small-group reason mapping.
- 15 min: Swap positions and defend the strongest rival.
- 10 min: Test a nearby case or changed context.
- 5 min: Final reflection and remaining uncertainty.
Prompt sequence
- 01
Is the present special in itself, or only special to whoever is in it?
- 02
What in your experience of time would have to change if time did not flow?
- 03
What makes the thing that changed the same thing that existed before?
- 04
Why can you influence the future but only record the past?
- 05
If an event causes itself, has anything been explained?
- 06
Which of your commitments depends for its value on time running out?
Position and process cues
- Say whether you think the present is metaphysically special, and what follows if it is not.
- Distinguish claims about how time is experienced from claims about how time is.
- Take one concrete case—memory, travel, or a change in an object—and apply your view to it.
- Name the consequence of your view you find hardest to accept.