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221 | Adam Bulley on How Mental Time Travel Makes Us Human
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Does the E. Coli Have a Memory Correspondingly?
The ability to imagine the future as humans do it was actually something that gave Darwin pause. He said at one point in his autobiography that he was most inclined to believe in God when contemplating how such a capacity to traverse time could have possibly evolved through blind chance or necessity. But if it's true that over the course of evolutionary history, there are all sorts of these capacities that develop in animals or even pre animals to do something to prepare for the future. Did our imaginative capacities latch on to them and take advantage of them once they did spring up in this more human visualizable way? Yeah, I think it's an extremely gradual process.
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