Thomas Metzinger Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: b. March 12, 1958
Birthday: March 12
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.
source: Thomas Metzinger (2009). “The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self”, p.36, Basic Books
topic: Past, Brain, Body, Modern Day, Information Processing, Neuroscience
