Long TextExercise 80 of 81

We inhabit, or believe ourselves to inhabit, a continuous present - an unbroken stream of immediate experience that flows, moment by moment, from an irrecoverable past toward an unknowable future. This conviction is so deeply embedded in the structure of ordinary consciousness that it functions less as a belief than…

• What does the writer claim neuroscience has revealed about our experience of the present moment?
• How does the brain create the illusion of a unified present from asynchronous sensory inputs?