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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

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Is There a Gap Between Humans and Other Animals?

The human ability to, to travel mentally in time is just obviously way, way better. At least it's more articulated. You can look further into the future. You can anticipate possibilities, contingencies. You can go into remote distant times. All of those things are much more articulated than other other other animals. But that is not to say that other animals cannot, they have no ability to engage with the future. They have no future directed capacities and understand,. you know, and that is, and it's a gradually acquired trait.

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