{"product_id":"the-delayed-present-stefano-pozzuto-9798243494588","title":"The Delayed Present: We always live a moment too late","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery experience we believe to be \"immediate\" - the light of a star, the sound of a voice, the touch of a hand - has already passed by the time it reaches our consciousness. Our senses collect delayed signals, the brain processes them with unavoidable latency, and what we call \"now\" is always one moment later. \u003cb\u003eWe live in delay.\u003c\/b\u003e And yet, it is precisely there that our existence unfolds: not at the origin of events, but in their echo, in perceived time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Delayed Present - We always live one moment later\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is not an academic treatise, but a \u003cb\u003emultidisciplinary journey\u003c\/b\u003e. A crossing where \u003ci\u003ephysics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and culture\u003c\/i\u003e enter into dialogue, through an accessible yet poetic style. Stefano Pozzuto guides the reader with a steady hand toward a vertiginous question: \u003cb\u003edoes the present truly exist?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter is a \u003cb\u003ethreshold\u003c\/b\u003e: it opens onto a new perspective without closing itself into definitive answers. The book explores themes such as Einstein's relativity, consciousness in neuroscience, perceptual illusions, time in dreams, memory, simulated worlds, language, and contemporary culture. The common thread is not a single theory, but the experience of limits: what the senses can grasp, what words can express, what science can describe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat is time?\u003c\/b\u003e It is not only what flows: it is what passes through us, defines us, unsettles us. It is measurement and mystery, structure and illusion. This book does not simply explain - \u003cb\u003eit questions\u003c\/b\u003e. It does not claim absolute truths, but offers \u003cb\u003eperspectives, paradoxes, intuitions\u003c\/b\u003e. Einstein and Bergson, quantum mechanics and meditation, biology and philosophy of mind, childhood time and digital time all meet within these pages. Each chapter is an invitation to slow down and observe, with greater awareness, how we inhabit the instant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Delayed Present\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is also a deeply \u003cb\u003ehuman\u003c\/b\u003e book. It speaks of us: of moments when time seems to accelerate, slow down, or fracture. It speaks of dreams, waiting, memories that distort reality, technologies that pull us away from the here and now. It speaks of how we perceive, remember, and imagine. And above all, it invites us to recognize that the present is not an objective given, but \u003cb\u003ea creative act\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeta-reading: \u003c\/b\u003e This is not only a book about time. It is a threshold-book: between knowledge and imagination, between consciousness and mystery. Its hybrid style - poised between scientific rigor and poetic impulse - is not a narrative ornament, but a message: the present cannot be captured by a single language. It requires the precision of science and the imagination of poetry. It does not instruct, but accompanies. It does not define the present - it invites us to inhabit it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is for those who...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHave asked themselves at least once: \"Where am I - when am I?\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWant to better understand \u003cb\u003emind, perception, and consciousness\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLove \u003cb\u003ephilosophy\u003c\/b\u003e but seek a clear and accessible language.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAre interested in \u003cb\u003ephysics and neuroscience\u003c\/b\u003e without complex formulas.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePractice \u003cb\u003emeditation or mindfulness\u003c\/b\u003e and wish to explore inner time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAre curious about \u003cb\u003elanguage, culture, and technology\u003c\/b\u003e as keys to understanding the present.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Delayed Present - We always live one moment later\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is an invitation to look at the world differently: to discover that every instant escapes us precisely as we live it. And it is there, in that suspended space, that the true question arises: \u003ci\u003ewhere are we - when are we?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the author: \u003c\/b\u003e Stefano Pozzuto (Italy, 1988) works in information technology, while cultivating a lifelong interest in what resists measurement: time, consciousness, and emotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stefano Pozzuto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798243494588\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d","brand":"Stefano Pozzuto","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997374558463,"sku":"9798243494588","price":17.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-delayed-present-stefano-pozzuto-9798243494588","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}