Alex, your fishing musings echoed precisely what the study showed: that how you look at it ...depends, it turns out, on whether they’re picturing themselves as being in motion relative to time or time itself as moving. If you're standing in the stream, the "future" comes to you, but if you're on a boat you're moving towards the future.

I don't know anything about the Aymara peoples' culture, but it seems to me that, for people who may believe that they have no control over what happens to them; that the future will be whatever God's or the Fates' will is, it would make perfect sense that there is no point in trying to see into it; it would be like trying to see behind themselves.

Fascinating article, Anna--thank you for posting it!