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Originally Posted by bojan
Hmmmmmm Hmmmmmmm..
Not necesarily..
"mental time travel" is just "playback" of our memory content, associated time stamps included..
Bear can learn from mistakes.. so maybe bear can also "mentally" travel in the past ?
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Its interesting eh ?
I must admit, I did a bit of cherry-picking. It seems its a controversial matter in psychology circles .. there are 'believers' and 'non-believers' when it comes to animal mental time-travel, eh ?
Either way, the interesting aspect for me is that it is acknowledged by those looking into this formally, that we are able to re-create the aspect of time, whenever we indulge in these kinds of mental-gymnastics.
We seem to do it effortlessly, also.
Time, memory and consciousness are extraordinarily closely intertwined.
I can't help but question how can we dissociate our own perceptions of time, from time in the physical universe. And it seems that many others before me, have spent a lot of time pondering this same question. Its probably unanswerable, so that's good enough for me to not get too hung up on it.
It is certainly fertile ground for development of pseudo-sciences … "any questions mainstream science can't answer, must mean mainstream science is wrong, and by default, my theory is right", eh ?
(I think this was a key feature in the recently uncovered
"Crackpot Index" …)
Cheers