Anthony James Donnelly

Felt Time: The Phenomenological Present as the Ground of Temporal Experience

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) January 7, 2026 Anthony James Donnelly preprint

Contemporary physics increasingly suggests that time may not be fundamental, while neuroscience treats subjective temporality as constructed and elastic. Yet conscious experience is invariably characterized by a vivid sense of presence—a felt "now"—that persists across all states. This paper introduces Felt Time: the intrinsic phenomenological present that underlies all experience but is not...