Untroubled by any notion of time “ticking away,” he might have experienced a heightened awareness of the vividness of things,

Complexity shows up when we force the brain to expand its perceptual capacity, for example, when we stand on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplate the question of geological time, or when we gaze up at the night sky and realize that a great many of those singular points of light are actually galaxies. This is the experience of awe, where we