we’ve seen, illusory or not, it is practically impossible for us to step out of this way of experiencing time. Aside from occasional moments when, for some reason, we find ourselves ‘out of time’ in a positive sense, we are for the most part carried along by this flow, riding in time’s chariot, heading at an equable pace into the future, one tick o

the clock is just one tool among many for reckoning time, and its full meaning emerges only when it’s joined with a particular goal or cosmology.