Whitehead's view on Time contains profound insights on the complexity of this notion

What is it about?

Whitehead distinguishes the common notion of time with that of process; the process is the true motor of nature. In this process instants of time do not exist. Concrete reality is a rapid succession of crystallizations of potentialities; with each of them -- named a 'concrescence' of concrete reality -- a small piece of time is born. This view is more consistent with the teaching of modern physics (the quantum and relativity theories) than the classical views on Time. In addition, each concrescence allows for the incoming of a dose of novelty for satisfying a general principle of harmony in nature.

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Why is it important?

The discretization of time proposed by Whitehead after 1924 offers a promising solution of the free will paradox: how the brain can provoke bifurcations in the course of mental states although the subjacent networks of neurons always obeys determinist laws?