Memory evolved first to self regulate, then emerged emerged to help us REACT. Ev

Memory evolved first to self regulate, then emerged emerged to help us REACT. Eventually to predictively react and act. Remembering the past as we understand it as accessible memories consisting of sequences of episodes and their constituent parts, is one of the last most developed faculties that develops. In other words, memory as you experience it is the mirror image of the sophistication of consciousness as you experience it.

If you get into the weeds in neuroscience, you can see the evolution of the brain, and it’s a relatively obvious and trivial sequence in retrospect once you grasp it.

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