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Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.

Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of