Memory is the current spacetime location's fuzzy view when looking towards the past. Imagination is the fuzzy view when looking forwards to the future or with the many-worlds view, imagination is the looking out(?) towards multiple outcomes.

Consciousness is the step towards the next point in the many world multiverse.

Without the ability to be blind to the future, life as we know it wouldn't exist. Nothing conscious would take risks and so complexity couldn't evolve.

If you could glance to the future and see all of the laid out spacetime, there wouldn't be any interesting exploration of it.

So we have to be blinkered just to exist with this level of insight into the complexities of the universe.