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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 It All Hunky-Doring?

We're kind of taking this mental time machine for a spin into an alternative reality and thinking how much better it could have been if I just said something slightly better or reacted in a, in a more cooler headed way to some problem. And the downside of this is that we can have regret, right? We can imagine, oh, I could have done something differently and that would have been better. This seems like, is that a uniquely human capacity also? Probably. It's one of those, it's another one of those difficult ones where you obviously can't read their mind.

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