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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
The Errors of Memory
If you have a memory system that is flexible, which you can, where the various bits and pieces from memories. Can be combined and recombined in flexible ways to enable us to remember a vast multitude of previous events by using constituent elements. That's an effective way for the brain to reconstruct what has happened to it before without having to store all the specific details from every single event that has happened. Now what that's really useful for though is when you want to imagine the future, which of course, by definition, hasn't happened yet. And what the brain does seem to do is combine and recombine the elements that we've accrued in memory in order to imagine possible future events as well
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