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As long as we're clear that it's unbelievable. Invoking Occam's razor really helps decide it - is it more likely that you are experiencing altered perception w
by SketchySeaBeast 6y ago
As long as we're clear that it's unbelievable. Invoking Occam's razor really helps decide it - is it more likely that you are experiencing altered perception while consuming chemicals that are use explicitly to alter perception, or that time itself doesn't follow the rules that are observed and understood and reproducible by some other quality of the perception altering drugs.
- asdff 6y agoCould a third option be that our sober perception of time isn't particularly accurate, and is a construct of our own consciousness? We see a day as a day, but for a fruit fly a day is 1/14 of a lifetime.
- SketchySeaBeast 6y agoRegardless of the rate of time (which we can all experience with doing an enjoyable or boring task), there's no reason to believe the fruit fly experiences time in reverse or as a loop.
- nkingsy 6y agoI think it’s more that our sober human perception of time and space is a filter we all share and reason about. All clocks tick at more or less the same rate, but a second is meaningless without the “human standard” filter.
- SketchySeaBeast 6y agoBut they are describing time as looping. I take no issue with time being variable - I've experienced slow and fast days, but looping is the issue.
- nkingsy 6y agoThis seems like a variation on fractals. We’ve established that the experience of time can fully stop. When stopped, infinite fractals can play of the same moment.