Neuroscientists rarely grapple issue presentism versus existentialism. — Dean Buonomano, Brain a Time Machine: Neuroscience Physics Time

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Neuroscientists rarely have to grapple with the issue of presentism versus existentialism. But in practice, neuroscientists are implicitly presentists. They view the past, present, and future as fundamentally distinct, as the brain makes decisions in the present, based on the memories of the past, to enhance our well being in the future. But despite its intuitive appeal, presentism is the underdog theory in physics and philosophy.

Dean Buonomano, Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

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