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Hi Sally .... I think your view is very close to mine.
If you break it down to basics then the question becomes:
'Why is it I can 'see' the past but cannot 'see' the future.?'
My answer is that we don't see the past any more than we can see the future. All we see when we look 'backwards' are the records we retrieve from our memory banks.
'Then why do our memory records only contain the past ?'
They don't, not really, they only contain information that is necessary for survival.
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Oh wow, that's what my baby would say. Do you think written history is inaccurate? OH WOW! That could change everything! There was this guy on about the same thing on another message board and he said we can change the past with this
now knowledge.
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Its important that we remember where Tigers live. Its important that we remember girlfriends birthdays and anniversaries. These are examples of things that are extremely dangerous and life threatening if we forget them. I see memory as a beneficial natural selection.
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History is self serving. I understand the importance of our personal rememberences, but why should I care about history in general? I never did like history class, in fact I didn't graduate high school cause I always cut that first period history class I had.
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When we review our memory we think we 'see' the past. But all we 'see' are memories. The true past is as elusive as the future. It has no ordered shape. Everyones view of it is different.
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I agree with you 100%. But we both agree on the past in essence, so I can only agree that you are right, we are very close, maybe a just planck off.