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There remains for me one important aspect of our encounter with reality which is not effectively covered by the theories I have discussed, nor, so far as I am aware, by the comparable theories of such thinkers as Popper or Kuhn.1 This is the difference between the living, inescapable actuality of what each of us experiences in the immediate moment Here Now, and the derived, passive reality of our broader knowledge of the world.
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Erwin Schrodinger, What is Life? and Other Scientific Essays (Doubleday Anchor, 1956) p. 211.
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Moss, E. (1995). The Here and Now. In: The Grammar of Consciousness. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378865_10
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