January 2023
It was St Augustine who asserted, in that famous passage in The Confessions, that time is an illusion. “The past”, Augustine insisted, only exists as memory in the present while 1 “the future” is an anticipation from the present. Memory can be very fallible, while the future can turn out quite differently from our anticipation of it. It follows that the past and the future are, in other words, constructs of the mind.