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Memory, imagination, and the asymmetry between past and future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2007

Bjorn Merker
Bjorn Merker
Affiliation:
Gamla Kyrkvagen 44, SE-14171 Segeltorp, Sweden. gyr694c@tninet.se
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Abstract

A number of difficulties encumber the Suddendorf & Corballis (S&C) proposal regarding mental time travel into the future. Among these are conceptual issues turning on the inherent asymmetry of time and causality with regard to past and future, and the bearing of such asymmetry on the uses and utility of retrospective versus prospective mental time travel, on which I comment.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , June 2007 , pp. 325 - 326
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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