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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 Effect of Language on Time
Do we know enough about how the brain works to say that these memories are in our brains, but they get reclassified as they pass the boundary? Or do we sort of have to think about, oh, that was three weeks ago? Okay, it's in this category. Well, we don't know enough about the brain to know that I can make an educated guess, which is that when you're about to tell someone about an event, you're retrieving elements. And when you're retrieving, you're adding information as well. So if your language makes a distinction between things that happened up to a week ago and other things, then you really have a separate category in your mind for
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