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You're correct, the article is fundamentally flawed. Your thinking speed is not fixed. A person may not have full control over it, but it is far from fixed.

• Terretta 6y ago
  While it’s arguably perception rather than thinking, experiments purport to show time dilation for race car drivers, pro athletes, gamers, or normals in accidents, allowing the person to self perceive as acting/reacting in a kind of Neo from Matrix slo mo in extremis. Furthermore, we showed a reduction of perceived frequency for flickering stimuli and an enhanced detection of rapidly presented letters during action preparation, suggesting increased temporal resolution of visual perception during action preparation. We propose that the temporal dilation during action preparation reflects the function of the brain to maximize the capacity of sensory information-acquisition prior to execution of a ballistic movement. This strategy might facilitate changing or inhibiting the planned action in response to last-minute changes in the external environment. "Our guess is that during the motor preparation, visual information processing in the brain is enhanced. So, maybe, the amount of information coming in is increased. That makes time be perceived longer and slower." https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2012.1339 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2012.133... It seems less likely that time is slowing for them than that their perceived processing frame rate spiked on demand to handle important (life threat?) detail: These results are in line with the third-person perspective studies on the effect of movement on time. That is, the faster the speed of the car in the video, the more context changes were perceived in the video, aligning nicely with the hypothesis that the number of visual changes drives temporal dilation effects. Although tested in a different context, this explanation find corroborative support in a study (Antonson et al., 2009) on the effect of landscapes on preferred speed in car simulators, with landscapes richer in details (i.e., forests compared to open spaces) associated with slower preferred speeds. Although this effect is typically explained by other, higher-level factors, our study suggests that the rich detail landscapes might cause internal time to run faster due to the higher number of changes, causing participants to drive slower to keep their subjective speed at comfortable levels. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82851715.pdf https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82851715.pdf