Present moment, past, and future: mental kaleidoscope

alongwitha succession of discrete thoughts that giverise to feeling of the past and future, areference to mechanisms outside the phe-nomenal realm is necessary (Revonsuo,2003). Thus, the question of what couldbe the neurophysiological mechanismsresponsiblefortheseexperiencesshouldbeaddressed.In this Opinion Article we shall buildourargumentbasedonthebiologicalreal-ism approach to consciousness proposedby Revonsuo (2006). According to thisapproach,subjectiveconsciousnessisarealphenomenon that is tightly anchored to abiological reality within the human brain.Broadly speaking, the human brain is thespecificphysical“location,”wherethesub-jective mental reality and the objectiveneurobiological reality are intimately con-nected along a unified metastable contin-uum (Fingelkurts et al., 2009, 2013).Wehavearguedpreviously(Fingelkurtset al., 2010) that phenomenal conscious-nessreferstoahigherleveloforganizationin the brain and captures all

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