You take an action, you get punished by your environment (like eating a poisonous fruit)
This keeps happening until you learn the pattern. Your past memories influence the future.
Then you rise up a level in metacognition, and you can detect patterns that have never happened before in your life, or in anyone’s life. You begin to learn to “read the future”.
You begin to “negotiate” with the future. You’re like, “ok, if I eat this, I will feel pain. But…HEAR ME OUT…what if we cooked it??”