A Complex of Mental Programs
Humans actually do not 'have' a mind.
A mind is a complex of mental programs that provide a basis for perception of the outside world.
The programs include duality, causality, scalarity, linearity, conditionality, spaciality, and deity. To name a few.
These programs are not based on 'reality' they are based on models derived from current understandings of science, knowledge, and experience. These current understandings may be more accurate than archaic understandings, e.g. the progression from the physics of Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein.
Many human societies experience time as linear. This is a model. Models stand in the place of understanding a phenomenon, concept, or construct.
According to the linear model time is composed of past, present, and future. The past is a near infinite length of time which is accessible only in memories and records.
There are two errors that humans tend to make about these models. One is to perceive them as the truth. The other is to try to rid our minds of the models or replace them.
Simply observing the use of them and recognizing them as models is a huge step toward deeper understandings.
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