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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 Cardinal Directions Effect on Time
The way people think about time depends on space and you build one out of the other, then they should do this thing. So when we asked people in this community to organize cards that show a person aging from young to old, instead of organizing them from left to right, they organize them from east to west. If they're sitting facing south, they made them go from left toright. But if they're Sitting facing north, they make them go from right to left. And for me, that was just the most amazing thing to see with my own eyes. It's not like time revolves around you. It's more stuck inherent in the earth somehow.
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