Comments on: Which brain regions enable us to remember our past and anticipate our future? http://sciconrev.org/2007/01/which-brain-regions-enable-us-to-remember-our-past-and-anticipate-our-future/ News from the Scientific Study of Consciousness Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Future event forecasts « morbius glass http://sciconrev.org/2007/01/which-brain-regions-enable-us-to-remember-our-past-and-anticipate-our-future/comment-page-1/#comment-284284 Future event forecasts « morbius glass Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:35:41 +0000 http://www.sci-con.org/2007/01/which-brain-regions-enable-us-to-remember-our-past-and-anticipate-our-future/#comment-284284 [...] More information here [...] [...] More information here [...]

]]> By: Ellen Carlisle http://sciconrev.org/2007/01/which-brain-regions-enable-us-to-remember-our-past-and-anticipate-our-future/comment-page-1/#comment-218355 Ellen Carlisle Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:10:24 +0000 http://www.sci-con.org/2007/01/which-brain-regions-enable-us-to-remember-our-past-and-anticipate-our-future/#comment-218355 Stephen Hawking in A Brief History of Time, chapter 9- The Arrow of Time asks the question "Why do we remember the past and not the future?" You will find his exploration of this topic amazing! And don't forget the White Queen's observation in Through the Looking Glass: "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward". Stephen Hawking in A Brief History of Time, chapter 9- The Arrow of Time asks the question “Why do we remember the past and not the future?” You will find his exploration of this topic amazing! And don’t forget the White Queen’s observation in Through the Looking Glass: “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward”.

]]> By: Natalie M. B/H/M/A http://sciconrev.org/2007/01/which-brain-regions-enable-us-to-remember-our-past-and-anticipate-our-future/comment-page-1/#comment-157036 Natalie M. B/H/M/A Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:15:34 +0000 http://www.sci-con.org/2007/01/which-brain-regions-enable-us-to-remember-our-past-and-anticipate-our-future/#comment-157036 Time travel is virtually possible, I am from a year from now. I was able to cause time travel by slowing down everything around me I was travelling at the speed of light forcing myself to return to the past to save something which was out of my control. I failed my mission. You cannot change the past but you can return to the past. I haven't been able to return to my own time though, I was born in the year 1990, I am from the future of 2008. I have beeen able to turn back time since 2003. I can re-play my life back from a year. Time travel is virtually possible, I am from a year from now. I was able to cause time travel by slowing down everything around me I was travelling at the speed of light forcing myself to return to the past to save something which was out of my control. I failed my mission. You cannot change the past but you can return to the past. I haven’t been able to return to my own time though, I was born in the year 1990, I am from the future of 2008. I have beeen able to turn back time since 2003. I can re-play my life back from a year.

]]> By: Todd Laurence http://sciconrev.org/2007/01/which-brain-regions-enable-us-to-remember-our-past-and-anticipate-our-future/comment-page-1/#comment-67451 Todd Laurence Wed, 23 May 2007 15:43:29 +0000 http://www.sci-con.org/2007/01/which-brain-regions-enable-us-to-remember-our-past-and-anticipate-our-future/#comment-67451 The ability to "see" future events has been verified. See url above. The nature of "acausality" was a major aspect of Carl Jung's 'synchronicity principle,' and much has been written about this reality. Few realize that the main conclusions concern the nature of number as the most primal archetype of order in the human mind. "man has need of the word, but in essence, number is sacred" Jung "entelekk" The ability to “see” future events has been verified. See url above. The nature of “acausality” was a major aspect of Carl Jung’s ‘synchronicity principle,’ and much has been written about
this reality. Few realize that the main conclusions concern the nature of number as the most primal archetype of order in the human mind.

“man has need of the word, but in essence, number is sacred” Jung

“entelekk”

]]> By: Shahid Mahmood http://sciconrev.org/2007/01/which-brain-regions-enable-us-to-remember-our-past-and-anticipate-our-future/comment-page-1/#comment-32337 Shahid Mahmood Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:22:41 +0000 http://www.sci-con.org/2007/01/which-brain-regions-enable-us-to-remember-our-past-and-anticipate-our-future/#comment-32337 I think this "Mental Time Travel" hype is overly exaggerated. There are areas and functions of brain that store inferred knowledge, and there are areas of brain that store information with time-stamp. Thus a "Mental Time Travel" in the past is simply replaying the previously stored information, just like remembering a name or place, except that this one has a time-stamp tagged along with each image. There is nothing exotic about it. My VCR can do the same thing. Similarly, the "Mental Time Travel" to the future, is a humble operation of brain that extrapolates new data based on current data and observation. Just like a computer that can predict weather. Even animals are known to do this type of "Mental Time Travel" to the future. Its called "Planning". And its not unique to humans either. Dr. Clayton of University of Cambridge, has recently shown that scrub jays (a type of bird) can exhibit the act of future planning, just like humans. I think this “Mental Time Travel” hype is overly exaggerated. There are areas and functions of brain that store inferred knowledge, and there are areas of brain that store information with time-stamp. Thus a “Mental Time Travel” in the past is simply replaying the previously stored information, just like remembering a name or place, except that this one has a time-stamp tagged along with each image. There is nothing exotic about it. My VCR can do the same thing.
Similarly, the “Mental Time Travel” to the future, is a humble operation of brain that extrapolates new data based on current data and observation. Just like a computer that can predict weather. Even animals are known to do this type of “Mental Time Travel” to the future. Its called “Planning”. And its not unique to humans either. Dr. Clayton of University of Cambridge, has recently shown that scrub jays (a type of bird) can exhibit the act of future planning, just like humans.

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