No Such Thing as the Present?

The present as an instantaneous moment does exist, it's just such an inconceivably small period of time that by the time you even begin to realize how short it it, you've passed it. The present as a large scale of time obviously exists as well.

 

Awareness of your feet on the floor is merely a conscious interpretation of what the nerves in you feet have detected--that is, our perception of our feet against the floor. but ever if we remove that conscious perception, that interpretation of the event, it still does not refute the fact that your feet are still touching the ground. If that were the case the comatose would have no present existence, and yet we can measure the neural signals that would correspond to the conscious expression of pain when we prick them.

How can you ever be sure that a moment has past. If you woke up in a bed the next day with no memory of yourself and were surrounded by strangers who insisted that you were a Super Saiyan and 62 feet tall, how would you verify it? You would look at yourself in a mirror and judge their claims against what you are presently experiencing. Moreover, how can you deny what you are currently perceiving and experiencing when you read this post?