helps us understand the larger neurological implications of the ME; namely, that altering details of a person’s past influences the course of their future — just as, according to Ingvar, the present is influenced by the future.
In the same…Memory is therefore more complex and quasi-mysterious than we tend to imagine. As Tulving and others have argued, since this curious reliving in the present of a recalled memory is true for the past, it could also be true of the future. Wha…———. New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
Hirstein, William. Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation. Cambridge, MA: MIT …
David Ingvar
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David Ingvar is a neuroscientist known for theorizing that the brain uses anticipated future states to guide present behavior and decision-making—a framework that complicates linear temporal models. In this course, his work appears in discussions of memory and the mind-expanding experience (ME), where citations invoke his research to argue that memory reconstruction operates bidirectionally, with future states influencing present consciousness just as past states do. This temporal plasticity becomes crucial for understanding how altered perception or consciousness might reshape not just remembered history but anticipated futures.
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