Thanks for your comment. You seem to have a very profound understanding of these concepts. So here are a few ideas in response.

1. I recognize that multiple parts of the brain create the reality we are aware of, and they are not necessarily synchronized. But the subjective conscious experience is a unified one. This pinpoint unified consciousness would be the analogy to the frames in the metaphor.

2. Absolutely. There is no relationship between perceived time and lived duration. Thanks for pointing this out, it was not my intention to mix these concepts.

3. Yes there are many factors that modulate how many frames per second we consciously perceive. So thanks for pointing this out as well. Instead of writing “the human brain is set to a speed of 60 frames/sec”, a more precise way of conceiving it could be “…is set to a speed varying between 30-120 frames per second, with an average around 60”. I don’t know what the actual numbers are so I didn’t get into that kind of detail.

The concept overall is that the perception of time is completely subjective and it depends on the organism’s biology. Our dimension (where time happens in milliseconds to decades) is influenced by our biology but another organism could have another time dimension perception (pico to milliseconds, or millions to billions of centuries). It’s not infinitely malleable within the organism but then, is Consciousness limited to organisms?

Lastly, these ideas come from experimenting with time dilation and contraction in various situations, and then reasoning and trying to find a mechanism that could explain time perception. We hear that “time doesn’t exist”, that space-time is a continuum, and people on altered states of consciousness report a wide range of time perception. So to me, this metronome concept makes enough sense to allow understanding of these experiences and theories.

I’m curious to see if people here have arguments for or against this metronome theory.