Carmen Callizo-Romero y Julio Santiago
Centro de Investigación Mente, Cerebro y Comportamiento, Universidad de Granada, España
(cc) Carmen Callizo-Romero. Image created using “VQGAN+CLIP neural networks” in response to “time asymmetry”, “past”, “future” and “Dalí style”.
We strive to remember where we came from and to plan for our future. But do we think asymmetrically about the future compared to the past? In a recent study, we found that we value future events more than past events; we feel closer to how we will be in the future than how we were in the past; and we think about a longer-term future than the past. In short, we represent the past and the future with an asymmetry toward the future, although this asymmetry is very small and barely varies across cultures.
