Make Yourself

Here is what it is all about; time goes both ways in the human mind. The remembered past and the anticipated future are represented to consciousness from the same cognitive machinery of memory. Any hypothesis about the past or the future emerges from the same present state of meat. Is tomorrow presented to the present awareness with privilege over the past or is it the other way around? Is this the future  you remember?

The many plausible paths that brought you here and the many divergent paths that lead from here arise from simulations running in brains embedded in bodies. At three second intervals of each specious present we transport a virtual self forward in the direction of advancing time. The three second interval comprehends the interplay of working memory, short term memory and long term memory. The neurocorrelates of the cognitive now and the dream now make guesses about what happens next and the reaction to what happens next come alive as response to the current mess unfolding before me.

I have named the remembered past and the anticipated future the dream-now to distinguish it from the experiential now. The amazing fungibility of memory spans many possible past and future paths. The dream now is wondrously diverse. This impermanent self follows the laws of this universe in the multiverse. From this garden of the self each of us emerges.

Make your next slip a good slip, make yourself from the past self and your future self. You have just three seconds so act now; enjoy the ride foxes.