[D] Can neural networks perceive time ?

The recent debate about neural networks being conscious made me curious about different attributes of consciousness and to what extent neural networks exhibit them.


I came across this interesting paper ([https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-08194-7](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-08194-7)) which seems to claim that activity in visual classification networks (like AlexNet) can be used as a proxy for subjective time !

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The machine learning relevant section from the paper is the following:

At each time-step, a video frame was fed into the input layer of the network …

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