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is a field that claims we are never in touch with the present and always experience only the past because of the fact that neural information-processing itself takes time.

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.

is, for neuroscience, a thing we are never in touch with. We always experience only the past because of the fact that neural information-processing itself takes time.

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