Relating to the ability to mentally travel through time and imagine yourself in different situations, especially past or future experiences.
From Greek autos (self) + noesis (thinking/awareness). Coined by consciousness researcher Endel Tulving in 1985 to describe a specific type of memory and imagination tied to the sense of a continuous self.
Humans have this amazing ability that maybe dolphins and dogs don't—we can imagine ourselves as different ages, in different places, reliving yesterday or picturing next summer. Neuroscientists think autonoetic consciousness might be what makes us uniquely human.
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