Quick stub. Theories have a habit of using time. Either like habitual thinking of seeing the objects of consciousness as presenting themselves to a self at the centre of experience, or like the last post seeing that the contents of consciousness have already been processed. In both cases a "self" is posited either after or before the emergence of apparent phenomena into awareness. Science is definitely the latter, seeing the consciousness as a process of a prior existing brain and nervous system. Daniel Dennett is firmly an "anterior self" kind of thinker.
I never read Heideggar's "Being & Time" but the title points at least to an important connection.
But then you have Zen which suggests that the "Now" is all that matters. I'm all for this because any other theory other than a "now" theory sets up an infinite regress of causation upon which the apparent rests. Yet the whole point of the apparent is that it is apparent.
Most philosophers from Empiricists to Phenomenologists acknowledge that knowledge begins with experience, and the entry point of everything is the apparent. You can deduce posterior and anterior selves but they are based upon the Now.
It is recognising the fundamental starting point of the apparent that is most of the task of the religious mind.
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