"During brief, dangerous events, such as car accidents and robberies, many people report that events seem to pass in slow motion, as if time had slowed down. [..] We attribute the subjective expansion of time to the engagement of attention and its influence on the amount of perceptual information processed."

"as perceptions are ninety percent or more stored knowledge, the present moment needs to be identified [..] perhaps what qualia do is flag the present so that we do not get confused with remembered past or anticipated future."