"it only degenerates by age because you lose interest in things, losing excitment means you won’t spend as much effort in recording and being alert so you’ll take in information slower." Psychologically, when you are bored, time passes much slower. When you are excited, time passes faster. So, if it is true that we lose interests as we get older, then the phenomenology of time should be the other way around.
Re: structures. Rodney Collin’s book, "The Theory of Celestial Influence", goes into that issue in depth and is very interesting. He sees each unit of structure to be a dimension, and explains how incredibly similar they are, as you describe, from atoms to planets. It is fascinating. Even though he provides no scientific proofs to his theories, they seem to explain a lot of things. Even though he does not use the metaphor of FPS, he talks about the similar issue; that all living creatures in this universe have the same life time perceptually; the faster each creature’s perception is, the shorter its life is. Recently New York Times had an article about some scientist who is studying the same thing. I don’t think that he is aware of Collin’s theory, it was essentially the same idea.
A Random Comment from March 17, 2002
Hi Heero,
"it only degenerates by age because you lose interest in things, losing excitment means you won’t spend as much effort in recording and being alert so you’ll take in information slower." Psychologically, when you are bored, time passes much slower. When you are excited, time passes faster. So, if it is true that we lose interests as we get older, then the phenomenology of time should be the other way around.
Re: structures. Rodney Collin’s book, "The Theory of Celestial Influence", goes into that issue in depth and is very interesting. He sees each unit of structure to be a dimension, and explains how incredibly similar they are, as you describe, from atoms to planets. It is fascinating. Even though he provides no scientific proofs to his theories, they seem to explain a lot of things. Even though he does not use the metaphor of FPS, he talks about the similar issue; that all living creatures in this universe have the same life time perceptually; the faster each creature’s perception is, the shorter its life is. Recently New York Times had an article about some scientist who is studying the same thing. I don’t think that he is aware of Collin’s theory, it was essentially the same idea.