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It’s surprising how much the future being behind as a metaphor makes sense. You can’t see behind you! I wonder if there is any other indication of a focus on v
by codezero 6y ago
It’s surprising how much the future being behind as a metaphor makes sense. You can’t see behind you!
I wonder if there is any other indication of a focus on vision, or seeing in their culture.
- goldenkey 6y agoIt's not about vision, it's about movement. We move forward through time, thus we consider the future to be ahead. It's interesting that vision is antagonistic to movement though when it comes to time metaphors :-)
- faitswulff 6y agoMaybe we are moving backwards through time and that’s why we can only see clearly into the past. As GP comment hinted at, it’s a matter of cultural perspective.
- goldenkey 6y agoI don't think cultural perspective as much as pure philosophy. As a coder, I once realized that the entire universe's events could be an existing stack, and in that stack exists the events that create the universe, because of the requirement of consistency. Us experiencing time would just be those events being popped off that stack. This stack view is equivalent to what you are saying, and there is no reason to believe it can't be the case since it does make consistency easily satiable.