Perhaps the most pointed example of all is that our minds seem to have access to a collection of events that we call the past—our memories—but none of us seems able to remember the collection of events we call the future. So it seems obvious that there is a big difference between the past and the future. There seems to be a manifest orientation to how an enormous variety of things unfold in time. There seems to be a manifest distinction between the things we can remember (the past) and the things we cannot (the future). This is what we mean by time’s having an orientation, a direction, or an
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