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We predict what the future will look like by using our memories. This is how actions we do repeatedly become routine. For example, you have an ideas of what your day will look like at work tomorrow based on what your day was like today, and all the other days you’ve spent working.
But memory also helps people predict what it will be like to do things they haven’t done before.
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Just as memories are more accurate the more recent they are, imagined future scenes are more accurate the nearer in the future they are.
John Green, Looking for Alaska
You can remember facts and you can make entirely informational forecasts, but most of the time, when you recall something, you are reliving a scene from your memory.
If you can plan for the future, you’re more likely to survive it. But there’s are limitations as well.
An evidence that memory and imagining the future might go hand in hand comes from research related to amnesia patients. Studies show that when they lose their pasts, it seems they lose their futures as well.
There’s an extreme positivity bias toward the future: we think that future events are more important to our identity than the past events.
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