It sounds like what is being described in the article is more or less the intuitive understanding of past and future which I imagine most people have. Is there a better summary of this model that someone can provide?
Anyway, the title made me think of this passage from a lecture of Alan Watts. He's describing the universe as you experience it when you are first born (the universe in its truest nature to a taoist):
" When one experiences oneself and the universe as happening together, the other illusion one is liable to have is that what is happening now follows necessarily from what happened in the past. But you don't know anything about that in your primal ignorance. Cause and effect? Why obviously not, because if you are really naive you see that the past is the result of what is happening now. It goes backward into the past, like a wake goes backward from a ship. All the echoes are disappearing finally; they go away, and away, and away. And it is all starting now."
Anyway, the title made me think of this passage from a lecture of Alan Watts. He's describing the universe as you experience it when you are first born (the universe in its truest nature to a taoist):
" When one experiences oneself and the universe as happening together, the other illusion one is liable to have is that what is happening now follows necessarily from what happened in the past. But you don't know anything about that in your primal ignorance. Cause and effect? Why obviously not, because if you are really naive you see that the past is the result of what is happening now. It goes backward into the past, like a wake goes backward from a ship. All the echoes are disappearing finally; they go away, and away, and away. And it is all starting now."