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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 Relationship Between Causation and Deep Time
Hinduism has a cyclic sort of cosmology that is like way longer than most Western cosmologies. And so it's a relationship to deep time, whether it's the past or the future, is really different from place to place. I'll give you two examples. One is just how many steps of causation do you think are relevant to a current outcome? So if I set up a pool table and I say, here's the location of all the balls, I'm going to make a shot. How important is this shot for all of the next shots that I're going to make? American students fall off after basically like the second or third shot. But students in Korea
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