I suspect it is creation of memories. You don’t experience time when you’re not creating memories, and they’re some kind of very subtle object that lasts from one moment to (at least) the next so they leave a very subtle trace in causality, and the input that goes into them is correlated in time, because it is (some small selection from) the perceptions and representations you had simultaneously when you formed the memory.
I even believe you experience a present moment particularly intensely when you’re creating a long-term memory—I use this to consciously choose to create long-term memories, and it subjectively seems to work.
I suspect it is creation of memories. You don’t experience time when you’re not creating memories, and they’re some kind of very subtle object that lasts from one moment to (at least) the next so they leave a very subtle trace in causality, and the input that goes into them is correlated in time, because it is (some small selection from) the perceptions and representations you had simultaneously when you formed the memory.
I even believe you experience a present moment particularly intensely when you’re creating a long-term memory—I use this to consciously choose to create long-term memories, and it subjectively seems to work.