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The specious present

The window of time—roughly two to three seconds—in which your mind binds sensations into a felt "now," creating the experience of continuous present despite the brain processing information in fragments. Grasping this explains why you can lose hours without noticing and why presence requires deliberate attention rather than passive awareness.

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