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Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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The Importance of Time Travel

Time is a fancy notion that we have. It's probably not through personal experience through time travel, right? But here's a story. Across languages, people use spatial language, spatial words to talk about time. Once you have that analogy in place, it allows the possibility of time travel. You can now create that idea very easily. So, what kind of evidence could we have that this kind of way of building knowledge actually is possible or something that people do? Well, so, one question you could ask, is it the case that people build knowledge of time out of knowledge of space? And the other is, do patterns in language and culture actually encourage how people encourage different ways of

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