permemant present?
2007-01-28 16:04:18 · 8 answers · asked by Eleazar's Daughter 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
This has been asked in various ways so many times already. No language is required to recognize the passage of time. Prehistoric man knew to put some food away for tomorrow, or for the winter, even before he had words for them. And he understood the concept of something happening in the future. Babies or people with language and speech problems learn fast enough that they can depend on tomorrow to come. Next week or next year take a bit more thought, but the thought processes work independent of language.
2007-01-28 16:30:30 · answer #1 · answered by BuddyL 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We wouldn't even be locked in a permanent present because the same cognitive processes that allow us to depict past and future operate in the now. It's all a part of our consciousness which is intrinsically linked with language. Without language yes we would be stuck in a permanent present but we wouldn't recognize that we were stuck in the present and as such we wouldn't be stuck in a present because to us the present wouldn't exist.
2007-01-28 22:45:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes or no. It doesn't matter because without communication, we could never really know. Its like trying to prove that no two fingerprints are the same. It is impossible to get a record of everyone's prints and have one person examine them. There would be so many, that the person would die before he/she accomplished the task of comparing all of the prints of every alive and deceased person to theirs and to each others. In other words, your will go mad before you answer such a question. Even though you can conceptualize an answer, the question is inherently unanswerable.
2007-01-28 16:36:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably boils down to the question whether there could be consciousness without language. But then, they say the elephants have a loooooong memory...
2007-01-28 16:26:51 · answer #4 · answered by soro 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
perpetual permanent present. No. Our brains spontaneously time-travel when not otherwise occupied. We learn to predict the future by remembering the past. It's the way brains learn.
2007-01-28 16:12:58 · answer #5 · answered by harvhermit 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you think that Helen Keller got bored before she learned to communicate?
2007-01-28 19:08:16 · answer #6 · answered by bradnick2000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-01-28 18:40:49 · answer #7 · answered by clcalifornia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we did not have a word for bullets it does not mean they could not kill us.
2007-01-28 16:24:22 · answer #8 · answered by Immortal Cordova 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋