Thinking about the past as the past for the past's sake: Why did temporal reasoning evolve?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42:e262 (2019)
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Hoerl & McCormack discuss the benefits of temporal reasoning mainly with respect to future planning and decision making. I point out that, for humans, the ability to represent particular past times has distinct benefits, which are independent from contributing to future-directed cognition. Hence, the evolution of the temporal reasoning system was not necessarily driven primarily by its benefits for future-directed cognition.

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Metarepresentation.Leda Cosmides, John Tooby & Dan Sperber - 2000 - In Dan Sperber (ed.), Metarepresentations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Oxford University Press USA. pp. 53.

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