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The “now moment” is believed privileged because “now” is when happening is experienced

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2019

Ben Kenward  and
Michael Pilling
Ben Kenward
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, OX3 0BP, United Kingdom. bkenward@brookes.ac.ukmpilling@brookes.ac.ukwww.brookes.ac.uk/templates/pages/staff.aspx?uid=p0078109 www.brookes.ac.uk/templates/pages/staff.aspx?uid=p0075139
Michael Pilling
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, OX3 0BP, United Kingdom. bkenward@brookes.ac.ukmpilling@brookes.ac.ukwww.brookes.ac.uk/templates/pages/staff.aspx?uid=p0078109 www.brookes.ac.uk/templates/pages/staff.aspx?uid=p0075139
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Abstract

Hoerl & McCormack risk misleading people about the cognitive underpinnings of the belief in a privileged “now moment” because they do not explicitly acknowledge that the sense of existing in the now moment is an intrinsically temporally dynamic one. The sense of happening that is exclusive to the now moment is a better candidate for the source of belief in a privileged now.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e259
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