Well, the hippie in me absolutely believes that. So many of us exist either in an anticipation of possible future or in rehashing the past that we can easily overlook the present. A much smarter hippie than me wrote a whole book about that: Be Here Now. Interesting that this was your take - I did not intentionally try to convey that, and was mostly thinking about how memory works (or doesn't work) for us, and how the specific neural mechanism of memory is itself changing, and how what we think we know can always bear to be scrutinized.
Sept. 22, 2022, 8:13 a.m. - Mike Ferrentino
Well, the hippie in me absolutely believes that. So many of us exist either in an anticipation of possible future or in rehashing the past that we can easily overlook the present. A much smarter hippie than me wrote a whole book about that: Be Here Now. Interesting that this was your take - I did not intentionally try to convey that, and was mostly thinking about how memory works (or doesn't work) for us, and how the specific neural mechanism of memory is itself changing, and how what we think we know can always bear to be scrutinized.