Aymara story update

Science has the story I posted about a few days ago on the Aymara. The author briefly discusses the implications of how a different conceptualization of time may have cognitive consequences. There is also an interesting quote from David MacNeill, "'The Aymara seem to equate time with sources of knowledge,' he says. For the Aymara, the forward direction is the source of what's known: what's seen by the eyes, what's happened in the past. Behind, where they can't see, lies the future."

Concerning this quote, I think that the idea that the future is uncertain is not unique to the Aymara, just because they conceptualize it as behind them and thus, where they cannot readily see. One of my studies in the Fall will address the question as it relates to past vs. future events, whether or not seeing is believing.