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General Discussion & Feedback => Just Chat! => Topic started by: Cataloochee on 17/07/2011 23:30:20
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True or False and Why? When you are bored, your Internal Clock speeds up and things slow down, but when you are excited your Internal Clock slows down and time speeds by.
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It has to do with a gene regulation system inside the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus. In fact it has been proposed that this gene regulation is in fact the very reason we experience time at all.
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... When you are bored, your Internal Clock speeds up and things slow down, but when you are excited your Internal Clock slows down and time speeds by.
Surely it’s the other way round : your brain runs faster when you are in danger which makes you percieve action is slowed down, (slow motion, over cranking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_motion)).
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In fact it has been proposed that this gene regulation is in fact the very reason we experience time at all.
Wow! You mean my genes are regulating the rate at which the Moon orbits the Earth. I knew I had good genes, but that's awesome!
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Time and change are not synonymous. These two are frequently mistaken as equalling each other.
Unless you meant this as a joke :)
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Obviously.
Experiencing and perceiving are two very different things. We have no control over how we experience time. Time affects every process within our bodies, whether we like it or not, but we may perceive that time varies under different circumstances.
If you can persuade your body that time and change are not synonymous, that is most impressive.
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I think our perception of time passing is such that the days go more quickly by as we get older. Is this due to our brain's processing rate getting slower, loss of memory or other brain cells, or due to the psychological impact of the importance of a unit of time with respect to the total time of our existence?
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Obviously.
Experiencing and perceiving are two very different things. We have no control over how we experience time. Time affects every process within our bodies, whether we like it or not, but we may perceive that time varies under different circumstances.
If you can persuade your body that time and change are not synonymous, that is most impressive.
I am not persuading my body, I am persuading my outlook on time. Time is a highly subjective experience of perception.
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Time is a highly subjective experience of perception.
Isn't all perception subjective?
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Time is a highly subjective experience of perception.
Isn't all perception subjective?
Well, yes. But time is often believed to be external of the mind.