#430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

744.091 - 766.382 Charan Ranganath

And so what our brains are really optimized for is to learn about the stuff from the past that's going to be most useful in understanding the present and predicting the future, right? And so cause-effect relationships, for instance, that's a big one. Now, my future is completely unpredictable in the sense that you could, in the next 10 minutes, pull a knife on me and slit my throat, right?