time-binding

THIS is one of the failures of Malthusianism — it fails to grasp that humans are not animals, that we do limit, control, and redirect our behavior in ways which animals, lacking any sense of time-binding, are not capable of.

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One of the reasons that few of us are consciously aware of wearing the time-binding lenses through which we see is that they are crafted slowly over time from a variety of sources.

The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008

One of the reasons that few of us are consciously aware of wearing the time-binding lenses through which we see is that they are crafted slowly over time from a variety of sources.

The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008

One of the reasons that few of us are consciously aware of wearing the time-binding lenses through which we see is that they are crafted slowly over time from a variety of sources.

The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008

One of the reasons that few of us are consciously aware of wearing the time-binding lenses through which we see is that they are crafted slowly over time from a variety of sources.

The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008

Possibly time-binding -- that is, they pass on knowledge to the next generation.

Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995

As I listened to Jerry's singsong of formal Dracon, the backward biographies-beginning with death and ending with adulthood-I experienced a sense of time-binding, of being able to know and touch the past.

Enemy Mine Longyear, Barry 1979

If mankind lived as long as a thousand years, it would be necessary to invent some totally different method of memory association in order to be eclectively time-binding.

The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

If mankind lived as long as a thousand years, it would be necessary to invent some totally different method of memory association in order to be eclectively time-binding.

Methuselah's Children Heinlein, Robert A. 1958

What I mean by time-binding will be clearly and fully explained in the course of the discussion, and when it has been made clear, the question — What Is Man? — will be answered by saying that man is a being naturally endowed with time-binding capacity — that a human being is a time-binder — that men, women and children constitute the time-binding class of life.

Manhood of Humanity. Alfred Korzybski 1914