Hoerl & McCormack discuss the benefits of temporal reasoning mainly with respect to future planning and decision making. I point out that, for humans, the ability to represent particular past times has distinct benefits, which are independent from contributing to future-directed cognition. Hence, the evolution of the temporal reasoning system was not necessarily driven primarily by its benefits for future-directed cognition.

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为了过去而思考过去：为什么时间推理会进化？

Hoerl & McCormack 主要讨论了时间推理在未来规划和决策方面的好处。我指出，对于人类来说，代表特定过去时间的能力具有明显的好处，这些好处与对未来导向认知的贡献无关。因此，时间推理系统的演变不一定主要是由其对未来导向认知的好处所驱动的。