“Time-travel is a staple of science fiction stories, about visiting the past or rewriting the past or of catching a glimpse of the future.”
“What’s remarkable about time travel is how commonplace it really is. Every day we visit our past, we just call it a more mundane name, memory. Every day we imagine possible futures. And just like in science fiction, this mental time problem shapes our present.”
“…They can’t make the past disappear.”
“Turning the past into stories is part of constructing the narrative of identity that helps us make sense of who we are and creates the meaning that looks back on the past, entertainment or redemption.”
