Temporal Structure of Now from a Close-Up View

In this chapter, we discuss the problems of the human now, that attracted much attention in the XX century, and a number of their comprehensive accounts proposed at the beginning of the XXI century. We combine these accounts under the term temporal experience or temporal consciousness and analyze them in detail. During this analysis, in parallel, we formulate some of the main premises making up the gist of our account of the human temporality and describe the basic elements of individual temporal dimension attributed to the mind. In particular, the following issues are discussed in detail: The structure of a single unit of temporal experience. How these units are combined into the stream of experiences and form the diachronic unit of temporal experience. The available experimental data elucidating the details and particular time scales characterizing the experiential now.