In all likelihood one is in the past while in the present. The present is then veiled; the past is manifest and apparent, how-ever, so transparently present that it is veiled, and one assumes o n e s e l f t o b e i n t h e p r e s e n t wh e n o n e i s n o t .
we're never in the present almost never is one not thinking about the past or the future or contemplating the present instead of actually just experiencing it
While we say it cannot be h e l d a cc o u n t ab l e fo r t h e p r e se n t , t h e e x t e n t to wh i c h i t i s i g n o r ed i s p r o b ab l y t h e e x t e n t it d o e s ac co u n t f o r wh a t i s present
we are who we are because of all the things that have happened to us and all the things we've experienced, whether or not we chose to focus on those things
Or is the present where one dwells what we can call an abstract, conceptual present
daydreaming/contemplating present issues
If something stumps us, we back off (we say) to do so met hin g els
true of all people