A Second is Subjective
How many seconds are there in a lifetime? 10^9 sec
A second is an arbitrary time unit, but one that is based on our experience. Our visual system is bombarded by snapshots at a rate of around three per second, caused by rapid eye movements called saccades. Athletes often win or lose a race by a fraction of a second. If you earned a dollar for every second in your life, you would be a billionaire. However, a second can feel like a minute in front of an audience, and a quiet weekend can disappear in a flash. When I was a child, a summer seemed to last forever, but now the summer is over almost before it begins. William James speculated that subjective time was measured in novel experiences, which become rarer as you get older. Perhaps life is lived on a logarithmic time scale, compressed toward the end.
Notes:
Terrence Sejnowski on how a moment of time is a subjective experience that grows longer the more novelty is packed into it.
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This Will Make You SmarterSchemas
Increase the Information Entropy in Your Life
Increasing the options, the uncertainty, keeping things novel will preserve your brain's elasticity, make life go by more slowly, and increase the number of options for the future.
tl;dr Version
Intelligence makes the external world more syntropic by becoming more extropic.
Information Entropy increases your potential future histories.
Information Entropy keeps your brain elastic.
Information Entropy makes time pass more slowly. Perceptually extending your lifespan.
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