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89 | Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Importance of Memory in the Brain
People who read from left to right are more likely to remember things associated with the future. If they remembered things from the past, they misattributed them to the future. So culturally we've assigned the left side of time to be the past and the right side of time is the future. It's a completely arbitrary convention. And yet by the time we're grown adults, if you destroy the part of the brain that represents the leftside of space, you also knock out that culturally associated part of time.
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