Johnny20022002

Yeah I read that first sentence and my eyes were about to roll out of my head.

Did your doctor ever think it was lupus?

Emmmm delicious heterochromatic eyes

This is an interesting question, prima facie it just seems like we should obviously experience “now”, or whatever approximates our immediate perception. We could imagine a hypothetical scenario where our perception was tied to things that had occurred 1 day ago. This seems strange, but if you’re an epiphenomenalist about consciousness then this could be plausible.

I would say there is just a physical reason why this is the case. Perception of reality is a type of information and this information gets processed rather quickly. When light strikes your eye it hyper polarizes the cells there and sends a signal to your occipital lobe to be perceived as a sight experience. All of that happens rather quickly. Your brain doesn’t have a way for this information to be processed and experienced at any other time but now.