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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
Is the Hippocampus a Part of the Brain?
There's a very famous patient who goes by KC in the literature who this patient had damaged the hippocampus and the medial temporal lobes. Despite retaining semantic knowledge, he could no longer remember any event from his personal life. And he could not imagine what would happen to him in the future. There is a tension there as well, which the brain has to navigate - when do I think about what’s going to happen next and when do I focus on the here and now? You have to have some kind of mechanism that performs that switching.
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