I was most surprised in the Dan Gilbert interview about the fact that remembering the past is a very similar thing to imagining the future. I always thought of remembering in the sense that our brains are putting together pictures from our memory of what happened during an event. Gilbert explains that we have some story in our mind of what occurred, and our mind creates a memory from that. He explains that remembering and imagining the future is similar, and that the only difference is that we have more information about what happened in the past than we do when we try to predict or imagine the future.
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