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This explanation comes up frequently in these discussions. It makes a certain amount of sense on its face, but is there any evidence that this actually affects
by Falling3 7y ago
This explanation comes up frequently in these discussions. It makes a certain amount of sense on its face, but is there any evidence that this actually affects our perception of time?
- akiselev 7y agoWe don't even know if our brain even has a uniform perception of time (outside of the cultural definition), let alone what that might be. It's all guesswork anyway.
- Mediterraneo10 7y agoSee Douwe Draaisma, Why Life Speeds Up as You Get Older, a book that seeks to explain the work done in psychology and neuroscience on this issue to a popular audience.
- frenchy 7y agoThis isn't really evidence at all, but it's well known that as people age, it becomes more difficult to new memories, than it is to keep old ones[1], which is why you regularly get old people mixing up their current loved ones with old, dead people; and why "you can't teach an old dog new tricks". If the passage of time in the human experiences is largely a function of the memories we make. It's not at all surprising that things seem to go faster as we age. [1] There's common-sense explaination for this, but I don't think the exact mechanism is understood. It is widely observed though.