Is not your "case" comparing designed socially boxed in opinions ancestrally practiced throughout history every generation gap living into current events?
It is that mind over matter narrative.
Individual brains navigate their own body around living in series parallel events going forward by each person's heartbeats daily here evolving since their fertilized cell arrived by conception from a male and female of the previous generation.
Specific actions balance into specific results spontaneously alive, simultaneously living individually positioned as part of the global population within this species since date of birth.
Physical self evident time inhabiting space now. Down to each person's compounded chromosomes in streaming DNA results "being" part of the exact lifetimes living as the 8.2 billion souls pretending words matter more than time alive so far.