# Time Passage and Immediate Experience **Opening (not a real abstract):** ................................................................................................................................................ F the past couple of minutes you have (let’s suppose) been riding on an escalator; with little else to do, you’ve been gazing absent-mindedly at the advertisements on the wall as they slowly and smoothly slide by. How would your visual experience change if the escalator were to come to a stop? It’s not difficult to predict: the advertisements would stop sliding by and you would find yourself staring at a single motionless patch of wall. And it would not be long before you would find yourself getting more than a little bored. Let’s consider a rather more dramatic variant of this scenario. One obvious difference between time and space is that the latter has three dimensions, whereas time has