THE MEMORY IS A TIME MACHINE

Time travel has long been a fantasy of sci-fi movies, the idea of time travel has been used as a device to tell stories. It's so easy to fantasize about a giant machine with quantum engines and supercomputers, but what if I told you that we time travel every day.
Let me ask you this; why is it so difficult for people to live in the moment, our mind wanders through the far depths of time, constantly thinking about the past and projecting ourselves in the predictable future.

The memory is one of our instruments of survival as a species. What sets us about apart from the rest of the animal kingdom is our acute reactionary and adaptive instincts.
We have been able to store this huge library of information which we can draw knowledge from and use the knowledge to plot future scenarios.
A simple example; when you were a kid you didn't know the dangers of hot temperatures or fire, even though you were probably fascinated by it, a little bit of curiosity and you get burned now you know that next time you touch it you will feel pain.

THE BRAIN AND TIME ILLUSION

Our brain also carries out minute time predictions every second. There is a popular experiment which can be simply done with a mirror. If you take a mirror and observe your eyes, now switch your gaze between your left eye and your right eye, you can never observe your own eyes move.

Scientists were puzzled by this phenomenon known as Saccadic masking. It was discovered by Erdmann and Dodge in 1898.

Apparently, there is a gap in your vision when your eyes move you were blind for a moment but your brain stitches it up, adding a perfect loop from your previous vision to the current. your brain basically fills the gap of time.

Now let's say someone threw a dodgeball at you, you think you see the dodgeball but your vision is filled with clusters of blindness as long as your eyeball is moving.

What happens, your brain just plays a feedback of where the ball is supposed to be based on memory and understanding of basic laws of physics. It stitches the time together so you don't even know you were blind most of the time. giving more meaning to the word "the more you look the less you see."

MEMORY AND TIME

The linking chord between the past, present, and future is the memory. It's that simple, your present action is based on what you know in the past(memory of the past), your future is also based on present actions which depend on your memory.

As they say "History repeats itself", Just as the brain uses the memory to give us a holistic vision, we can also use our memory to fine tune our lifestyle.

Memories can be used to simulate possible future scenarios, recording parameters of the past, understanding both the good times and the bad can be instrumental in plotting a balanced life.
Just as crypto-traders observe past trends, bull and bear market and get a fair prediction, the same principle can be used to anticipate a better future.

The memory can be used as a mental simulation of future scenarios, exploration of the mind and stretching the sizes of our current realities. we already have this cognitive ability but some notable geniuses in our society have been able to exploit and max out this ability to make groundbreaking discoveries.

Thanks for reading, see you next time...

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