From the perspective of perception, exercising the free will to re-mean the past history of meanings (i.e., our narrative) changes our future history from that moment on… hence, our “future past.” And because future perceptions—just like the ones you’re experiencing now—will also be reflexive responses to their empirical history, changing our “future past” has the potential to change future perceptions (each, ironically, is generated without free will). Hence, almost every story we construct about ourselves in relation to the world, whether they are born out of consultation with a
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