The brains of all animals, humans included, come better equipped to navigate, sense, represent, and understand space than time. Indeed one of the theories of how humans came to understand the concept of time is that the brain co-opted the circuits already in place to represent and understand space (chapter 10). As we will see, this may be one reason all cultures seem to use spatial metaphors to talk about time (it was a long day, I’m looking forward to the eclipse, in hindsight I should not have said that out loud).
