We Do Have Memories of the Future; We Just Cannot Make Sense of Them. Or why even X-men cannot remember the future.

In X-Men: Days of Future Past, Wolverine is sent from the future to convince the young Professor X to help him in his mission. This one asks Wolverine to transmit his negative answer to whoever sent him. To which the messenger replies: The person who sent me is you! This peculiar situation illustrates what could be seen as surprising from a mutant with all sorts of super-powers: he can’t remember his own future. Of course, we humans are familiar with this problem. From time to time, in the scientific literature or in science popularization articles, appears the question: Why do we remember the past but we can’t remember the future? This question, of course, finds its legitimacy in the time symmetry of the equations of physics. However, it is not always answered clearly, and there are still debates about the best way to explain this paradox. In the present article, I analyze the remembering process in the perspective of the entropic arrow of time to grasp the possibility of memories of the future, and to understand what that would actually
mean.