The problem with that feeling that you are in the ‘now’ is that it is a naive realism.
That feeling that you are in existing in the ‘now’ as if you are anchored by a temporal internality that presumes it is a ‘now’; is a presumption that is specious.
The argument against the feeling of now goes as follows:
(1) I perceive I am typing this 'now'
But what I have perceived is motion and we perceive this as the present, the 'now'
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(2) What we are perceiving is motion.
Even if all our senses were prevented from functioning for a while, we could still notice the passing of time through the changing pattern of our thought (motion)
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Indeed, given the finite speed of the transmission of both light and sound (and the finite speed of transmission of information from receptors to brain), it seems that we only ever perceive what is past although we perceive the past, we do not perceive it as past, but as present, as the ‘now’.
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