This chapter introduces time-consciousness, which refers here to the experiential present. The chapter first distinguishes subjective time from objective, or “clock” time, which is studied in physics. The main proposals of the book are then outlined: (1) our minds actively construct the experiential present; (2) we experience the world temporally but do not experience time per se; (3) the phenomenology of time-consciousness is best analyzed through a particular pluralistic explanatory strategy inspired by extensional and retentional accounts of the specious present, labeled ERA (Extensional-Retentional Analysis); (4) the implementation of this phenomenological analysis on the cognitive level is achieved in virtue of “Temporality as Iterative Expectation Revision,” or TIER, which is argued to be a consequence of the currently popular idea that the mind functions as a predictive engine.