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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
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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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