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Our brains filter out repetitive events, so if every day follows the same routine you are going to remember less of those than if something happened on those da
by rhdunn 3y ago
Our brains filter out repetitive events, so if every day follows the same routine you are going to remember less of those than if something happened on those days -- like going on holiday, or the start of the pandemic.
When you look back, you will remember those key events, but everything else will be a blur. This happens a lot as you grow older, but the pandemic is a shared collective version of this, so may be a young adult's first experience of this phenomena.
There's also an interesting thought experiment I came up with for this. Spend an hour each on the following tasks:
1. sitting on a chair watching a clock;
2. reading a book you like.
In the first task you would say that time was slow as you are aware of it passing. In the second task you would say that time flew past as you are not consciously aware of the time passing, being engrossed in the book (or other activity where you are not actively monitoring time in some way). Time passed by the same, its just the perception of it that differs.
- yunohn 3y ago> Our brains filter out repetitive events Literal compression by neural networks.
- whycome 3y agoliteral neural literal networks
- varispeed 3y agoCould this have something to do with quantum physics? As in we only experience / feel time when we observe it?
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoHighly unlikely. It has more to do with what we focus our attention on, rather than anything in physics. It's like Einstein's[1] explanation of the relativity of time - "When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s two hours” - which actually has nothing to do with the relativity of time, since the entities are not moving with respect to each other. [1] Einstein apparently had his secretary give this answer when people asked for an explanation of relativity, because they didn't understand accurate answers (source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/24/hot-stove/#:~:text=That's%20relativity.,-In%20June%201930&text=Prof.,it%20seems%20like%20an%20hour.%E2%80%9D) https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/24/hot-stove/#:~:text=....
- varispeed 3y agoI was thinking more about this: > The observer effect is the phenomenon in which the act of observation alters the behaviour of the particles being observed. Then in terms of entities not moving with respect to each other - isn't that only valid for dimensions we can observe? What if perceiving time at different pace means we are moving in a different dimension differently?
- suoduandao3 3y agoI believe so - I wrote a series of explorations of those ideas, starting with the theory that flow state is what happens when we don't create facts by orienting in time. Always happy to plug it since these ideas are at the edge of my intellectual capacity and discussing them with smart people helps them become clearer. https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Time-dimensional-holons-explain-ebook/dp/B0CBG8NSYY/ https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Time-dimensional-holons-expla...