Have you ever perceived a phenomenon or event in the actual present of the occurance? ... We are arranged to perceive that which has already happened, thus we are 'in the present' perceiving 'the immediate past' (or in the case of distant stars, the remote past).
"Have you ever perceived a phenomenon or event in the actual present of the occurance? ... We are arranged to perceive that which has already happened, thus we are 'in the present' perceiving 'the immediate past' (or in the case of distant stars, the remote past)."
Interesting point MHGinTN. However, if I lock my gaze on the Windows "start" button on the lower-right hand side of my monitor (I'm using Windows XP on a Dell PC), and I continue to gaze at it, am I not simultaneious gazing at it in the past, present, and even--I dare say--in the future???