[MD] Mystics and Brains

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Platt]
> What happened in the past and predictions of what will happen in the future are 
> present assumptions. 

But isn't what we experience in the present full of assumptions also?  There appears to be a ragged person on the other side of my fence.  Then I remember my neighbor had put up a scarecrow.  Won't I assume my current perception is wrong & my memory right?  I see a car moving up the street.  What is the difference between my current perception & my memory of where the car was an instant ago?  Why is what I find valuable enough to remember more of an assumption than a fleeting perception?  Aren't they both reliant on brain states?
Craig