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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is There a Difference Between Semantic Memory and Episodic Memory?

It seems like there are two parts. One is like putting on the play in our heads, like literally constructing the scenario. And another part is thinking of it or associating it with past, present, future, fantasy, whatever. Do these necessarily go hand in hand? Are they separate parts of the brain doing different things? Yeah, good. They are probably, like I said earlier, foresight is we don't tend to think of it as just one encapsulated module and in fact it is possible to lose various aspects of the ability to think about the future while keeping others intact.

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