On Jul 22, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote:
>
> Human beings have always existed in time. But they have not always
> understood or experienced time the same way. Consider even the
> individual-level commonplace that time passes more quicly as you get
> older.
> (Why is that, anyway? I can make a few guesses, but none seem
> testable.)
> ___________________________________
People do not experience time. They experience duration, and their
experience of duration changes with age so that a given measured
duration seems shorter as they age, the internal neural events
determining their experience having slowed down.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos