  Advances in our understanding of the physical universe have impacted
dramatically on how we view ourselves. Right at the core of all modern thinking
about the universe is the assumption that dynamics is an elemental feature that
exists without question. However, ongoing research into the quantum nature of
time is challenging this view: my recently-introduced quantum theory of time
suggests that dynamics may be a phenomenological consequence of a fundamental
violation of time reversal symmetry. I show here that there is consistency
between the new theory and the block universe view. I also discuss the new
theory in relation to the human experience of existing in the present moment,
able to reflect on the past and contemplate a future that is yet to happen.
