“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 purpose, then the price of this flexibility is that we may at times reconstruct past events… — 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
