Distorsioni temporali e coscienza dell’azione intenzionale

Temporal “distortions” seem to affect human agency in all its manifestations. From a structural point of view, action manifests itself as a plot of processes that essentially include the formulation of an intention, the execution of a motion, and, finally, processing feedback including the effects of the action. The study of human agency has encoun-tered several obstacles which are mainly due to the complexity of mental processes that accompany spe-cific actions. Yet recent studies have shed light on the mental processes underlying action. In my paper I argue that, far from being temporal “distortions”, mismatches between subjective time (first person) and objective time (third person) indicate deeper unconscious subjective modes of in-forming time, which by-pass scientific exploration and point directly to the phenomenological constitution of a consistent and meaningful representation of the world, which cannot be further reduced by referring to clock time.