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I'm describing something I thought was salient. This was a passage of time issue, but it was specifically the loss of the ability to temporaily sequence the provenance of recollection. Imagine having a discussion where you couldn't tell if you said something in the previous sentence, or last week. We (apparently) feel this information and use it to guide the process. There was clearly some sort of 'tagging' of memory regarding it's age and how it "should" be used in reasoning, and I lost that. TFA is talking about this sequence being unique to humans.

I felt like I was 102 years old. I wonder how other organisms function without relying upon this appently inate ability.




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