mental time travel refers to the faculty that allows humans to mentally project themselves backwards in time to re-live, or forwards to pre-live events.
心理时间之旅是指人类在心理上把自我投射到过去以重新经历过去事件以及把自我投射到未来以预先经历未来事件的能力。
by contrast, mental construction of potential future episodes has only very recently begun to draw attention, which is referred to episodic future thinking (i. e. mental time travel into the future).
心理时间之旅是认知心理学、认知神经科学、进化心理学、比较心理学、发展心理学等多个学科共同关注的研究领域。
while mental time travel has clear survival advantages, conscious foresight came to humans at an enormous price — the understanding that somewhere in the future, death awaits.
如果说精神的时间旅行有着显而易见的生存优势,人类却为有意识的前瞻付出高昂的代价——对死亡终将降临的认知。