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Time Is Way Weirder Than You Think
By Dean Buonomano
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It’s not that complex—the idea of agriculture. But because the brain of most animals is not particularly good at linking cause and effect across large periods of time, agriculture wasn’t invented by other animals. So this ability to create the future, this ability to engage in what we call mental time travel, is really, in many ways, the defining cognitive signature of our species.