We never perceive a moment in its present. By the time an instant reaches our consciousness, it has already become the past. Our brain both generates and operates within the time plane we inhabit. It exists in the present, constantly converting predicted futures into past. Neural impulses travel at speeds of up to 400km/h, yet even at such velocity, awareness lags behind. It takes 200 ms for
the brain to register what the eyes have seen, creating a subtle gap between the world and our perception of it. Within that gap, time unfolds differently. The unconscious drifts freely across past, present, and future, making the mind a perpetual traveler among temporal states. Each of us carries multiple selves, scattered through time. We each shape our own pasts, experience our own presents, and project our own futures, all bound by the same physical principle we can neither master nor escape.
In Presence explores the fragile synchrony between perception and reality, and the shifting boundaries of time within the human mind.