Re:Is slowness the essence of knowledge? (2017)
by darkclouds on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @11:40PM
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> as we age is that we have fewer and fewer novel experiences
Yes. I cant believe how much of my life has been stolen by being kept captive in the UK.
Re:Is slowness the essence of knowledge? (2017)
by optomas on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:56AM
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>A lot of the reason that time seems to pass more quickly as we age is that we have fewer and fewer novel experiences
Experiential reference grows, reducing what "a long time" really means. At ten years old, a year is one tenth your life experience. At fifty years old, it is one fiftieth. Pretty simple.
Agreement on the novel experiences. They do seem to reset the clock.
Re:Is slowness the essence of knowledge? (2017)
by smokel on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:58AM
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Pretty simple, but that would mean that an experienced minute would go 50 times as fast, and that is not the case.
Also (as I tried to get at in a sibling comment), I don't see how this would work internally. Why would time perception be relative to all experience? What is the use of that, and how would it be accomplished? Why don't we have this with other sensory input, such as vision or hearing?
I like to think of memory as using a sort of compression algorithm. Repeated data gets compressed away; novel data takes up space.
So you can slow down your time perception by making your life less compressible. Do things differently; make bigger changes in your life more often; make more milestones; take more trips; change things up; be random.