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squishington | 6 months ago

Korzybski claimed that the most significant difference was the human ability of time-binding.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Cbqr9NcFDtjvM6zC4/time-bindi...

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irickt|6 months ago

Jacob Bronowski expressed this with a more fundamental hypothesis. Humans have "a sense of the future" whereas other animals have very limited foresight.

grenbys|6 months ago

Don’t octopi take a coconut shell with them to cross a patch of sandy sea floor with no place to hide? Pretty advanced sense of future.