Periodicals>Magazine Article:  Bilger, Buckhard (April 25, 2011), The Possibilian, New Yorker, Retrieved on 2013-07-02
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  • Folksonomies: perception time

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    02 JUL 2013

     The Oddball Effect

    The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. “This explains why we think that time speeds up when we grow older,” Eagleman said—why childhood summers seem to go on forever, while old age slips by while we’re dozing. The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass. “Time is this rubbery thing,” Eagleman said. “It stretches out when you really turn your brain resources on, and when you say, ‘Oh, I g...
    Folksonomies: perception time
    Folksonomies: perception time
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    Novel experiences make slows down our perception of time.

    02 JUL 2013

     Possibilianism

    Eagleman was brought up as a secular Jew and became an atheist in his teens. Lately, though, he’d taken to calling himself a Possibilian—a denomination of his own invention. Science had taught him to be skeptical of cosmic certainties, he told me. From the unfathomed complexity of brain tissue—“essentially an alien computational material”—to the mystery of dark matter, we know too little about our own minds and the universe around us to insist on strict atheism, he said. “And we know far too ...
    Folksonomies: secular humanism
    Folksonomies: secular humanism
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    Another flavor of secular humanism.

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