Why do we remember the past, and not the future? It’s an interesting question in that it is thought provoking. It’s also a perplexing question with no tangible, concrete answer, but many physicists would say we should be amazed at how much of the question we can answer. The question stems from, or at least often follows, Albert Einstein’s famous utterance, "Time is an illusion, although a stubbornly persistent one.”
We can even go as far as to replace the notion of memory with that of knowledge. Knowledge, after all, is facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education, i.e. the memories of that experience and education. So now the question becomes, "What if we had knowledge of the future?”