As creatures made of time, we live in the present and the past and the future all at once, continually shaken by all the fears and hopes, all the anxieties and anticipations, that are the price we pay for our majestic hippocampus — that crowning glory of a consciousness capable of referencing its memories and experiences in the past, capable of pro... See more

As a concept, time makes sense. We think we understand it. But in practice, it becomes unclear, and the minutes, hours, and days often blend together. It’s like we don’t have any internal clock or sense of time. We have a clockless mind. We only seem to understand two states: the present (“now”), and some vague version of all future time (“not now”

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