The human capacity to hold the present in the context of past experience, wile reacting flexibly and appropriately to the current environment, is one of the miracles of biological evolution. It is not surprising that such a complex process of holding and organizing the present is subject to the risk of major disruption and disagregation"
Alexander McFarlane in Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation: Emerging perspectives on severe psychopathology, 2008.


"Our movements, our actions, are extended in time, as are our perceptions, our thoughts, the content of consciousness. We live in time, we organize time, we are time creatures through and through" Oliver Sacks, 2004