A page is &quot;special&quot; in the sense that a location in memory is special when it&#x27;s the current address. It&#x27;s not the page, it&#x27;s the relation between the page and the words on the page that are referring to the page. &quot;Now&quot; is a state of relation between a mind and a timeslice. This is confusing because the state is two-dimensional - time is a line from past to future, but each mind in each point on it contains a model of time that has its own past and future. The sense of ordering of time that arises in conscious experience is a side effect of causality - if you think about how brains work, the question &quot;why is the present the present and not the past or the future&quot; is actually incoherent, a confusion about mind instead of a confusion about reality. By definition, we perceive the present as the point at which we are &quot;currently&quot; introspecting about perception.<p>Imagine somebody moved the entire universe and all matter in it thirty minutes into the future. Would you notice any difference?<p>Brains run on physics. Every story in your mind has, by necessity, a purely physical narrative behind it.