There’s another known issue navigating the path to HomeGrown Human that’s worth mentioning: muddling our tenses. While most of modern psychology assumes that I am “me” and you are “you” and when we sit down together our clocks are synchronized, that’s rarely the case. In fact, we’re almost never truly sharing the present together. Our meatsuits might be co-located in space but not in time. We are lost in a sea of stories—painful pasts and fearful futures we want to avoid at all costs, or perfect pasts and fantastic futures we’re desperately hoping to have more of.
