The Experiential IBE Argument

Abstract This chapter consider the Experiential IBE Argument. According to that argument, it should be inferred that time robustly passes because doing so is the best explanation for its seeming, in experience, as though time robustly passes. It is first argued that we should reject the second premise of that argument, namely the claim that the best explanation of having experiences (as) of robust passage is that there is robust passage. The chapter argues that there are no possible veridical experiences of robust passage. So, positing robust passage cannot be a good, let alone the best, explanation for anyone having such experiences. Second, it argues that we should reject premise (1) of the argument, namely the claim that we have experiences (as) of robust passage. The chapter argues that since there are no illusory experiences as of robust passage, there are no experiences as of robust passage.