Recent past is linked to the semantic ability of an individual.
Recent past is always changing our background and we are always deciding based on our technical knowledge and our background.
The past of our technical knowledge cannot be modified because he is cartesian unless someone prove,for example, that the Newton´s physical laws were wrong. If it did not happen we can say that the perception of our past technical knowledge does not change and it can be measured from the beggining until the time of decision. I like to use colours to express this as a perception. For example If we are 35 years old we can see our technical knowledge from 0 to 25 years old in a yellow colour. If we are 45 years old we can see it in the same period yellow too.The colour does not change because the perception does not change.Technical knowledge belongs to the Cartesian World.
But background is different. if we are 35 years old we can see our past from 0 to 25 years old green. if we are 45 years old we see it in a different colour because our perception has changed. The same thing happens with semantic because it belongs to the fuzzy world and it is linked to background.
we know that the time of decision is decreasing a lot so sometimes we do not have enough time to use our techynical knowledge to decide, we must use our background, and it is becoming usual today. That is the reson we need to discuss linguistic actions, but a lot of people are afraid to do this because they need to face their background and they do not know what colour or perception they will find. Face our fears is very difficult but we need to do this if we want to stay alive.
Returning to recent past I say that it has a great influence in the colour of our background. We must be aware of it when we are choosing team members to take decisions in a process
Hal congratulations for your courage