Followup thoughts on the creation and destruction that are in us (and all things), and how these two things tend to stay in balance.

How does memory work? What is the past? Is it connected to imagination? And what, if anything, does that have to say about reality in the present moment?

...and does it even matter?

It seems so. The world we live in was in part created for us by people who came before us. So, too, will we create the world that our descendants will live in.