If you woke up tomorrow without your memories, the person from the day before no longer existed to you. Time and age is an illusion but seems real because of our memory.
- If you completely lost your memory right now, your cells would still be the same chronological age, but your conscious mind would have no concept of time elapsed, history, or future plans.
- Memory is the mental filing system that allows you to compare your current physical state to a previous state, manufacturing the concept of “getting older.”
Your brain encodes memories based on entropy (the rise of disorder). You can remember a shattered teacup because your brain recorded the shift from order to disorder. You cannot remember the future because those thermodynamic changes have not occurred yet. Memory creates the psychological illusion of a one-way street