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I think it is much more basic and wired in. As we go about our daily lives, we act as real-time optimizing engines, making observations, projecting outcomes, making choices and taking action to obtain a favorable result or avoid an unfavorable one.hilbert2 said:I think the reason why a human being assigns a particular "forward" direction to the time axis is that we only have memories of what we call the "past". Otherwise there would be no reason to do that.
If there were species which were wired to influence the past, evolution seems to have wiped them out in favor of species which are wired to influence the future.