[gerbilly]

Exactly this!

I'd also point out that thoughts of the past always occur in the present as well.

And remembering something is not like replaying a movie, but every time you revisit a memory you change it a bit based on your current state.

Remembering is an active process.

[gosheroo]

Yes indeed, including in some cases changing the temporal order of events based on reason or new data. For example, I once misheard a drinking mug shatter on the floor before it slid off the kitchen surface.

But reason corrected the memory.

https://hilo.hawaii.edu/~ronald/310/310-Dennett-MultiDrafts....

I'd like to add that I think 'living in the moment' is powerful and useful despite not being literally true because it points to something real and important.

[gerbilly]

Well the term 'living in the moment' is just a western paraphrasing of the much more subtle and thorough explanation of mindfulness in the original suttas.