The Power of Now

[Red Celt]

But just strip it back to basics. Let's think even before that thought runs through your mind (of wanting pizza), what is it that triggered it? Hunger. Is the hunger happening in the future or is it an event that continuously happens in the 'now'? If hunger was an event in the future but never came to pass in the 'now' and eventually be a thing of the past, then you wouldn't ever feel hungry. The future has to come to pass, but through something, right?

I know that mathematically 'now' doesn't exist because the past and future squeeze out the room for there to be a 'now' (if the gap between the past and 'now' approaches zero, and same with the gap between 'now' and the future), but now that I think of it (no pun intended) maybe there's something more to it...

Nah. Nothing more to it. Hunger is a repeat-loop signal that is transferred from the stomach to the lower (base-level) brain (the part that our ancient ancestors had prior to self-awareness). Between that signal starting and that signal arriving, time passes (however short) which our consciousness stores in short-term memory. Which is linked to our short-term future memory. Consciousness basically resides in this transitional phase.