Why You Can’t Remember the Future

Stephen Hawking asks, what is the nature of time? Why can't we remember the future? Seriously. And these coming from a fairly sharp guy.

On the first one ... well, I mean, what business has he got asking something like that? Time is time. It’s kind of self-explanatory. What’s lust? What’s blue? What’s that feeling you get when you climb the stairs in the dark and take an extra step up after you’re already on the landing? Some things are what they are because there’s nothing else to be done about it. Leave well enough alone.

The second — shit, I can't even remember to clean the filter in the dryer or how much water to boil the quinoa in even though I've done it dozens of times. Or what I was about to say let alone remember what someone is going to answer me back before they even say it. If you could remember the future, life would be one big spoiler alert. We can’t remember the future because it would fuck up everything, that’s why.

You're welcome.

These people need to sit and think about shit a while before asking dumb questions.