A Symbol of Temporality and Orientation
A: The Present - The "Now" - the Cogent Moment
- der Augen-Blick
The Present is the focus of all existence.
We cannot act and think but in the Now, and also Memory, the
mental projections of a Past, and Expectation, the projections of
a Future, can only happen in the present moment. In German, the
Now is called "der Augen-Blick", which again leads us back to the
old symbolism. In neurological terms, the Now is governed by a temporal
coherence function spanning about three seconds: "the three second
consciousness" (Pöppel).
C: The Future: The Expectation
B: The Past
B1: Personal Memory
B2: Collective Ontogenetic / Cultural
Memory
B3: Phylogenetic Memory, Genetic Heritage,
Instincts
D: The Forgetting, Death, Dissolution of
Memory
