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we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time.

signals take time to travel from your sensory organs along the multiple neuronal pathways in your body to your brain, and they take time to be processed and transformed into objects, scenes, and complex situations.

strictly speaking, what you are experiencing as the present moment is actually the past.

consciousness is inwardness in time.
conciousness makes the world present for you by creating a new space in your mind—the space of temporal internality.