Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019)

Re:Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019) by guerrilla on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:55PM (#29109577)

This doesn't provide an actual mechanism though. You'd need evidence that our perception of time is dependent on that ratio and then show us a mechanism for it. On the other hand, the article gives a possible mechanism for a different theory.

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Re:Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019) by gowld on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:39PM (#29111625)

The proposed mechanism is that all recalled long-term memories (older than this week) are weighted independently of recency, so as you get older more of your memories are from the past years than the latest year, so the latest year seems less substantial.

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Re:Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019) by guerrilla on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:47PM (#29111706)

This is just more elaboration of the hypothesis. It doesn't actually explain anything neurologically. What's the implementation? How do you plan to test for it?

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Re:Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019) by refurb on Friday November 05, 2021 @07:22AM (#29117732)

The article doesn’t explain it neurologically either other than saying “more brain connections means long time to traverse the brain” which is just a bunch of handwaving.

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