Life is on-going experiment. The moment the experiment ends, life ends.

Psychologists have devised some ingenious ways to help unpack the human “now.” Consider how we run those jerky movie frames together into a smooth and continuous stream. This is known as the “phi phenomenon.” The...

Until now, I’ve been writing about “now” as if it were literally an instant of time, but of course human faculties are not infinitely precise. It is simplistic to suppose that physical events and mental...

Perhaps there are many “nows” of varying duration, depending on just what it is we are doing. We must face up to the fact that, at least in the case of humans, the subject experiencing...