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An individual has a plan for her actions if she has a representation of a goal and her current situation and can imagine different activities leading to that goal. Peter Gärdenfors Prof. Cognitive Science Lund University. ”I mean, if you don’t know what time it is,
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An individual has a plan for her actions if she has a representation of a goal and her current situation and can imagine different activities leading to that goal. Peter Gärdenfors Prof. Cognitive Science Lund University
”I mean, if you don’t know what time it is, you don’t know where you are, if you know what I mean” Harold Pinter from the Caretaker
Who said Ithrough my mouth????
Is it possible to maintain your identity if you don’t know where you have lived and how old you were during that period?
Thomas Åkesson Stig Nilsson
”To live is easy, you just have to decide on not dying……..” Janne Bergquist Autonomisk Manual
From a cognitive perspective, events and motion are more basic than time. G.Lakoff and M.Johnson Philosophy in The Flesh. The embodied mind and its challenge to western thought
Time as a never ending series of Championships • I met Eva the same month the Olympics were on in Athens • Susan was born during Wimbledon 1976. • Sue wanted a divorce during the World Series 2006
It takes 8 minutes to boil an egg. But if you don’t boil an egg……………. Jan Stenmark
Can we conceptualize time without metaphor? Lakoff&Johnson, Philosophy in the flesh.
The moving Time metaphor • The moving observer, or Time´s landscape • A ”The meeting on Wednesday is moved up two days” • B ”The meeting on Wednesday is moved back two days” • C ”The Wednesday meeting is moved forward two days”
Time runs! Time Creeps. Waste of Time Long time ago Time flies She lives on borrowed time Time is Money Stealing time
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There are three ”natural” ways to measure time. Building on the movements of the Earth and the Moon. • The Day and Night • The Month • The Year • All other units of time are cognitive artifacts
Three ways to get cognitive assistance • We can cooperate with other people • We can use information from the environment • We can invent and use thinking tools - cognitive artifacts
One day all of us shall die... All other days we shall not Jan Stenmark
But that is not the question. I want to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat. Yet if I try to imagine this, I am restricted to the resources of my own mind, and those resources are inadequate to the task. I cannot perform it either by imagining additions to my present experience, or by imagining segments gradually subtracted from it, or by imagining some combination of additions, subtractions, and modifications. What is it like to be a bat? Thomas Nagel [From The Philosophical Review LXXXIII, 4 (October 1974): 435-50.]