As modern-day neuroscience tells us, 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. So, strictly speaking, what you are experiencing as the present moment is actually the past.


The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self (ed. Basic Books, 2010) - ISBN: 9780465020690

Thomas Metzinger Quotes

As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take...

As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take...

As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take...

As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take...