A nonspatial continuum. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They say too that it is nonspatial and nontemporal. From Wordnik.com. [Living in the Material World] Reference
This argument moves from the fact that he can doubt the existence of the material world, but cannot doubt the existence of himself as a thinking thing, to the conclusion that his thoughts belong to a nonspatial substance that is distinct from matter. From Wordnik.com. [René Descartes] Reference
By accident-he could not accept the idea of divine intervention-he had discovered what no one except a few mystics had guessed before: that the human mind, under certain conditions, possessed the ability to escape the confines of its body and roam about in a nonspatial place which might well be heaven. From Wordnik.com. [The Unpublished Writer and His Love Interest (The Painter)] Reference
Shomstein S, Yantis S (2006) Parietal cortex mediates voluntary control of spatial and nonspatial auditory attention. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
But in scientific disciplines that work in nonspatial realms (bioinformatics, chemistry, the social sciences and so on), visualizing data is useful very early in the process of discovery. From Wordnik.com. [American Scientist Online] Reference
Her curiously nonspatial world, in which we're simultaneously under the water and above it, makes us see that neither image is "correct," that both are partial and incomplete, and that seeing is a process of integrating contradictions. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
You can come up with the most pedantic definition ever, hence: time (n.): A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. or a more philosophical definition such as: time (n.): The period of hours, days, weeks, months or years separating one from his own extinction. From Wordnik.com. [Qwaider Planet] Reference
Therefore, it is nonspatial pure incorporeal light”. From Wordnik.com. [Suhrawardi] Reference
A substance that occupied — indeed was — space and a substance — thought — that was essentially nonspatial. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
It just... felt a nonspatial continuum in which events occurred in apparently irreversible succession… from the past through the present to the future. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
Orthodoxy holds the prefrontal cortex is more involved than parietal cortex in information manipulation (suggested that the spatial transformations accomplished by parietal cortex might also be used for the manipulation or organization of nonspatial information - for example, in the subtraction and addition of magnitudes. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
1 a: the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues: duration b: a nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future c: leisure timing is. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
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