“In all six domains we repeatedly find two major features that set us apart: our open-ended ability to imagine and reflect on different situations, and our deep-seated drive to link our scenario-building minds together.” — Thomas Suddendorf Copy Share Image
“The main benefit of memory for past events may be that it allows us to imagine future events.” — Thomas Suddendorf Copy Share Image
“reason the current gap between animal and human minds seems so large and so baffling, then, may be because we have destroyed the missing… — Thomas Suddendorf Copy Share Image
“In all six domains we repeatedly find two major features that set us apart: our open-ended ability to imagine and reflect on different situations,… — Thomas Suddendorf Copy Share Image
“To imagine new events you need an open-ended system capable of combining old information into new scenarios. If mental time travel evolved for this… — Thomas Suddendorf Copy Share Image
“researchers commonly distinguish the following memory systems: memory for how to do things (procedural memory), memory for facts (semantic memory), and memory for events… — Thomas Suddendorf Copy Share Image
“Evolution works only on how memory influences fitness, not for how accurately memory reflects the past per se.” — Thomas Suddendorf Copy Share Image
“What appears to be lacking, even in great apes, is a motivation to find means to exchange what is on each other’s minds.” — Thomas Suddendorf Copy Share Image
“Our brain comprises about 2 percent of our body mass but consumes some 25 percent of our energy.” — Thomas Suddendorf Copy Share Image
