Consciousness Trilemma

[Edwardo Piet]

Except that this isn't true.  You -can't- be aware, in the present tense, of awareness.

I know what you're trying to say... but you're failing to say it.

Consciousness takes time to come into effect so when we experience it we experience it after the corresponding brain areas produce it. That doesn't change the fact that when we experience it we experience it when we experience it. And any given point in time it is present at that time. To say that it is never experienced in present tense is just nonsense. All tenses are experienced in present tense at some time. The future will become present in the future when it reaches what will be the present. The past used to be present but has passed. It's not rocket science.

You may as well say that the present doesn't exist because it would be an indivisible instant ant time requires motion.

But the reality of the matter is that the present is presently moving. It's a pulsating present. There is not just the present in the sense of what "happens" generally but here is also the present in the sense of happening. Present time is presently in motion.

The past and the future are what don't exist now they exist in the past and the future respectively. Presentism is true.

And the ridiculous notion that science supports Eternalism is simply a failure to understand that science can only ever test reality phenomenologically and the experience of time and it can never test reality noumenologically or time itself, by definition that is unverfiiable, unreachable, untestable and unfalsfiable. Science tests how we experience objective reality it doesn't test objective reality itself. Scientists measure what they experience including their experiences of the tools they use to measure, and their observations of those tools (even a telescope requires human eyes to use, for example. Even equations and calculations and computer screens require human eyes and observations of those results, for example). Science deals with phenomenal reality not noumenal reality. Science cannot support an eternalist theory of time it can only support an eternalist theory of the experience of time.