Why Do We Need a Wandering Mind?

When we create memories, we have multiple processes. One of those networks is actually tied to memory. The raw materials of our mind wandering typically are memory andth. They piece together either our reflections of the past or th the raw materials that woull allow us to create a simulated reality for the future. That could be generation of a memory from the past, and you're in that moment. Or you're fabricating of rich doomed state, potentially paradise in the future, and you’re there. So this is a very, very useful thing thing to do. In fact, it is the reason humans have been able to do a lot of really complex stuff that other species cannot