# Why do we remember only the past?

**Why do we remember the past and not the future?**

Memory runs one way, and many link that to the arrow of entropy. How a physical direction becomes the direction of experience is still being worked out.

Connects to:
- [Memory and the past](https://mapideas.org/i/ti_memory)
- [The arrow of time](https://mapideas.org/i/ti_arrow)

Sources:
- [Wikipedia: Arrow of time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time)

Source: https://mapideas.org/i/q_time_future · open on the map: https://mapideas.org/#q_time_future