The nature of the present

Gustavo E. Romero.

Serie: Trabajos publicados del IAR ; no. 1037

Contribución a GRACo I meeting, a publicarse por Cambridge University Press.

Resumen: The feeling of a moving present or `now' seems to form part of our most basic perceptions about reality. Such a present, however, is not reflected in any of our theories of the physical world. In this short note I argue for a tenseless view of time, where what we call `the present' is just an emergent secondary quality arising from the interaction of perceiving self-conscious individuals with their environment. I maintain that there is no flow of time, but just an ordered system of events