“…Simulationists have long discussed the selective advantages of episodic memory and future-oriented imagination (Tulving, 2002;Suddendorf and Corballis, 2007;Schacter, 2012). In recent years, there have been more systematic treatments of the evolutionary function of episodic modeling, re-examining the relationship between remembering and imagining (Jablonka, 2017;Mahr and Csibra, 2018;Boyle, 2019;Schulz and Robins, 2022). These typically employ a kind of "form-to-function" reasoning, inferring the function of the episodic system from features of phenotypic form, i.e., from the structure of the system's proprietary operations and representations.…”