Time & the specious present

| Cosmic Consciousness | Dreams | Karma & Nirvana 1895-6 | Life of St Issa - Jesus Christ | Manipulating consciousness | Organ transplants | Reincarnation & Karma | Taylor Swift's Karma | Theory of Everything | Time & the specious present | Time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin' into the future.... (Steve Miller Band 1976) Contents Time and perception Specious present Missing time References -------------------- 1. Time and perception The present is "now", the moment in time in which we exist, and our perception of that moment. It is not isolated, however; we are not goldfish, with a seven second window of experience forming our ever present reality, and nothing outside of that. As human beings, our perception of the present, or a moment, at any specific point in time is actually made up of a vast array of past experiences, present observations, and future possibilities. These are ...