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we're always in the present, but by the time we know it, we aren't
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Either that, or there’s only the present and there’s no such thing as the past or the future. >

I think OP is probably more correct as seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling things all have a processing time and occur factually after the point of time in which you are experiencing them. >

This is interesting. What do you mean by “time”? >

A measure of distance traveled.
A measurement of decay
An atomic frequency. 
The 4th dimension. 
A fabric of space. >

I’m sorry, I understand seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling as processing one’s environment, but I don’t know what you mean by time. >

It's a fabric of space.
A measurement of distance that can be distorted by mass.
Your brain uses a measurement of time to process your experience.  By the time you've fully processed that experience the time in which you are experiencing has already passed atomically