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I only read the abstract and it suggests a direction of causation that the experiment does not give. I'll read this in full when I have time but I would be ver

• beowulfey 5y ago
  What are you suggesting the causation is exactly? That blood sugar levels affect our perception of time?
  • ianmcgowan 5y ago
    That doesn't sound impossible. Like a CPU running slower when the power is janky, there's something appealing to the thought that we experience the passage of time differently based on internal physical processes. There's the trope of "time standing still" when some intense experience is happening - perhaps flooding the system with adrenaline has the opposite effect and speeds up perceived time?
  • klyrs 5y ago
    Take it a step further. Does our blood sugar affect the rate at which clocks advance? Because, according to the (rather digestible) article, that was the controlled variable.
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  • FeepingCreature 5y ago
    That was my first thought.