Time is memory
I am reading The Unreality of Memory by Elisa Gabbert, and in the essay titled “The Unreality of Time,” she writes about Henry Bergson’s concept of time. Apparently, Albert Einstein famously said “there is no philosopher’s time” against Bergson’s idea of time as a perceived duration, ruining Bergson’s reputation.
Gabbert continues to quote other philosophers to argue about the duration of now. Derek Muller describes how hearing and vision are out of sync, and our brain perceives them together as happening "now." It turns out now can span one tenth of a second.
The neuroscientist David Eagleman has said, "You're always living in the past" - meaning not that the past haunts us, though it does, but that what we experience as the present is in fact the past, the very recent past, the just past. In a way, then, time is memory - not clock-time, perhaps. Not Einstein's time. But human time is human memory.
