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Re:We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment by gosheroo on Sunday May 21, 2017 @01:02AM (#14385772)
'Living in the moment' is a metaphor. Thoughts about the future always take place in the present.
Re:We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment by gerbilly on Sunday May 21, 2017 @08:01AM (#14386891)
Exactly this!

I'd also point out that thoughts of the past always occur in the present as well.

And remembering something is not like replaying a movie, but every time you revisit a memory you change it a bit based on your current state.

Remembering is an active process.

Re:We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment by gosheroo on Sunday May 21, 2017 @09:22AM (#14387173)
Yes indeed, including in some cases changing the temporal order of events based on reason or new data. For example, I once misheard a drinking mug shatter on the floor before it slid off the kitchen surface.

But reason corrected the memory.

https://hilo.hawaii.edu/~ronald/310/310-Dennett-MultiDrafts....

I'd like to add that I think 'living in the moment' is powerful and useful despite not being literally true because it points to something real and important.

Re:We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment by gerbilly on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:56AM (#14400475)
Well the term 'living in the moment' is just a western paraphrasing of the much more subtle and thorough explanation of mindfulness in the original suttas.