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This is a fascination account of how our conscious perception constructs our sense of time. It very well implies that our concept of time as linear, as moving from the past into the future, and more, are elaborate constructions of the brain. Also strangely, short people live closer to the present moment than tall people… (are they therefore closer to the future than anyone else ?) Very rewarding read.

Your brain, after all, is encased in darkness and silence in the vault of the skull. Its only contact with the outside world is via the electrical signals exiting and entering along the super-highways of nerve bundles. Because different types of sensory information hearing, seeing, touch, and so on are processed at different speeds by different neural architectures, your brain faces an enormous challenge: what is the best story that can be constructed about the outside world?

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Edge 291: Brain Time