#time preferences

Human consciousness is three-dimensional. Past (as memory), Present (as readiness to action) and Future (as project) coincide: Memory is projected into the future and is pursued through our actions in the present. Throughout the historical present, and in a conflictive way, man himself sets the laws that will determine his future. Historical evolution is deducible only in the sense that it can be explained a posteriori. The past is not significant; rather it is ambiguous; it may mean opposed things, may reveal contrary values. Each of us from his own present, decides what that past may signify to the future projected.