The human experience of time is that of an ever-changing present in which the future becomes past. By sharp contrast, the laws that govern the physical world do not allow any meaning to be assigned to a present. Since future and past, and the metaphor of time's flow make sense only with reference to a now, physical processes cannot, and do not, provide for a preferential direction of change. This paper shows how the undirected time of the physical world and the directed temporalities of life and of conscious experience may nevertheless be accommodated within a natural philosophy of time.
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