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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
Mental Time Machine
The ability to imagine all these different hypotheticals really weighs us down with anxiety as human beings the way that other animals don't suffer? I think so. Well, because we're self aware enough to know that we're weak. It makes me wonder whether or not dogs or chimpanzees can have imposter syndrome. Can they like feel that they're not up to a task or just be embarrassed? Like, there's an evolutionary explanation for why people are able to anticipate threats in their environment. But it's a double-edged sword: It lets you prepare for upcoming dangers, but also plagues you with worries about all the possible things that could go wrong.
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