Mental Time Travel
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In this episode, Dr Stian Reimers looks at humans' conception of time, in an effort to understand what makes us different from other animals. He discusses a number of experiments which have examined the notion of mental time travel, arguing that while some species have a basic understanding of time, only humans have a consciousness of past, present and future.
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