that occurred, because we are always living in the present. In the case of the meteor, we are only “seeing” something that existed in the past, we are not actually time traveling. In a way, this can be just as deceiving as seeing a mirage in the dessert. What we see is not there, it just “looks like” something exists. As far as experiencing the present, this might very from person to person. But regardless of how you thing of it as, time will always go by. The two are related to each other just as oxygen is in air and water. They are the same molecules that can exist in two different forms. Whichever way you want to think of it as doesn’t matter. The same is true for time and experience; you can either tell time or live to experience it.4) The specious present has to be fiction because it’s constantly changing. Once it’s present, it changes without any amount of time elapse. To represent the present would be like giving an exact measurement of air contained within our solar system! It just can’t be done, however it does exist.Indeed it does exist, his logic behind the specious present is that both the past and the future do not exist, which makes sense. Nothing exists that happened in the past, and nothing could exist now if it will happen in the future, therefore there must be some kind of present in order for things to take place.5) 6) This paragraph makes perfect sense! … “but we seem to feel the interval of time as a whole”. This is exactly how I look into time. It’s kind of funny to think that we always rely on time to travel at the same rate. It also makes me think about how the future really doesn’t exist. Every second that goes by was not planned, but rather coincidental that “a moment” just past by. Later he goes on to say “…looking back may easily decompose the experience, and distinguish its beginning from its end”. A...
