The two times problem and IGUS Robots

In their interesting papers (2020, 2022), Gruber et al. use IGUS robots in an attempt to solve the two-times problem concerning the gap between the time of everyday experience and physical time.They try to do this by identifying the veridical and physical aspects of manifest time. Their verdict, based on physics, cognitive science, and experiments conducted with the aid of IGUS robots, is that the flow of time is an illusion produced by our minds. They argue that the Block Universe and similar cosmological views - lacking a unique present and dynamics - offer veridical aspects of the "flow of time," while its corresponding illusory aspects arise as a result of natural selection. In this paper, I attempt to demonstrate that physics without the real flow of time does not provide enough resources to explain how IGUS robots could help solve the two-times problem and that the arguments proposed by the authors are insufficient. The article also briefly examines the possibility of a realist solution to the problem of the passage of time.