[lbo-talk] Triple Your Lizard

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Wed Jul 22 11:36:24 PDT 2009


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



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