Maturana's essay gives a very interesting presentist account of time. His assertion that life and experience is something that always takes place now resonates very strongly with my own experience. However, right after this description of time, he explains that everything we know is restrained to the system of our language, and we cannot really know anything outside of language. This seems to contradict his statement, or any statement, about the way that time operates objectively. Also, even though it seems to make sense intuitionally that things always happen now, it still seems to be the case that things have happened before also, and that things will happen in the future.

Does human experience itself offer contradictory intuitions about time?