Mind and time

The question of the “passage of time,” particularly that of the subjective experience of time’s passage, raises difficult problems from both phenomenal and metaphysical perspectives. This is because it seems that we experience the passage of time in the first person, even though this experience does not correspond to any physical reality. The aim of this chapter is to clarify the phenomenology of the experience of time’s passage and to offer a non-eliminativist explanation of it in terms of second-order representation.