Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 30 / Issue 03 / June 2007, pp 325-326
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X07002117 (About DOI), Published online: 29 October 2007
Open Peer Commentary
Memory, imagination, and the asymmetry between past and future
Bjorn Merkera1
a1 Gamla Kyrkvagen 44, SE-14171 Segeltorp, Sweden. gyr694c@tninet.se
Abstract
A number of difficulties encumber the Suddendorf & Corballis (S&C) proposal regarding mental time travel into the future. Among these are conceptual issues turning on the inherent asymmetry of time and causality with regard to past and future, and the bearing of such asymmetry on the uses and utility of retrospective versus prospective mental time travel, on which I comment.
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