DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x2510294x ISSN: 0140-525X
When is “now”? In the past to compensate for the sensation of time or in the future as a prediction of the temporal sensory horizon?
Pascal MamassianAbstract
Fleming and Michel discuss the slowness of conscious vision and the predictions generated by an internal model of the world. However, these two points correspond to two different times. The slowness of consciousness puts the organisms in the past, whereas predictions give them a preview of the future. Given this tension between past and future representations, when is “now”?