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Now: The now is the present moment, or the moment that is currently happening. It is the only moment that we can experience directly, and it is the only moment that we have any control over. See also Time, Past, Present, Future, Experience, Events.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Marvin Minsky on Now - Dictionary of Arguments

Minsky I 62
Now/moment/mental time/Minsky: [a] When a pin drops, you might say, I just heard a pin drop. But no one says, I hear a pin dropping. Our speaking agencies know from experience that the physical episode of pin dropping will be over before you can even start to speak.
[b] What sorts of feelings have you now? we often find our half-formed answers wrong before they can be expressed, as other feelings intervene. What seems only a moment to one agency may seem like an era to another. >Memory/Minsky
, >Experience/Minsky.
The slower an agency operates — that is, the longer the intervals between each change of state — the more external signals can arrive inside those intervals. Does this mean that the outside world will appear to move faster to a slow agency than to a faster agency? Does life seem swift to tortoises, but tedious to hummingbirds?
>Time perception.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Minsky I
Marvin Minsky
The Society of Mind New York 1985

Minsky II
Marvin Minsky
Semantic Information Processing Cambridge, MA 2003


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