Full Idea
Neither the 'moving spotlight' nor the 'growing block' view of A-theory time can explain why we care so much about whether things (such as a headache) are present or past.
Gist of Idea
Neither 'moving spotlight' nor 'growing block' views explain why we care what is present or past
Source
Dean W. Zimmerman (The Privileged Present: A-Theory [2008], 3)
Book Reference
'Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics', ed/tr. Sider/Hawthorne/Zimmerman [Blackwell 2008], p.214
A Reaction
He goes on the defend Presentism as the best version of the A-series view. You can't deny that the past is more of a 'truthmaker' than the future, so it seems to have a firmer ontological status. Deeply weird.