My life has seemed very short and only seems shorter as I get older. Granted I remember thinking when I was a child that I would never be a adult, now more than half my life I have been a adult and it seems like not very long ago I was a child. The candle just burns faster and faster as I get older. It was the awareness of time and how we as humans used it in the way we do that helped me become self aware as a young teenager.
Not so sure what you're getting at here Anton. Ofcourse whenever you die you will have lived up to that point and so you've been fully 'alive' until you died, but you do have a frame of reference or comparison. You can look at someone else and say 'Hey, it's not fair, they had so much more than me!' Imagine you lived in a box for ten years and you were then let out and five seconds later died. Having found out that there was so much more to see, you'd certainly feel hard done by, and rightly so.
There's that pesky language again, granting us access to that world, not of sensory experience, but to the world that was before this moment, and to the world that will be, to say nothing of the world that might have been or the world that may yet be or, the root of morality, the world that someone thinks should be.
I read about an experiment that a psychologist did a while back. He asked people of different ages to estimate the duration of a minute (that is, to press a button when they thought a minute had elapsed). What he found was that younger people underestimated and older people overestimated. He concluded that the perception of time changes as we age. Younger people really do perceive time as passing more slowly. I tried it myself. Sure enough, I overestimated the duration of a minute!
it is all comparative rate, an hour to a child is a long time because it is a big slice
of what they have experienced. This diminishes and even a day or a week seems short when you get old. Any life extension will make years seem to fly past in a
blur. Arriving at Alpha Centauri we will remark that it seems like only yesterday
and she unfolds her arms and wraps them around me like a smooth blanket of heavy fog resting heavy on my eyelids taking away the fear and soothing away the pain her cool kiss liberating, frees me from the shackles of life.
Nice points. The distribution of human memories is denser among the childhood(after 5 yrs) and adolescence and is called the 'Reminiscence bump', having to do with flashbulb memory. I just read yesterday a great related article in wiki. The time when we are young, seems distorted and dilated , because the proportion of any given childhood day over the total amount of one's life is bigger, than an adult's 'Day over life' ratio. Hence, the distortion.
i wouldn't say life made sure it never cheats itself; that would imply that life is based in knowledge only and defined in separation;
i'd see it as follows: it is the system as who each one is that 'makes sure' that it is (perceived as) 'complete' in itself, as it exists in self-definition which is the separation that creates ego, at the same time making sure one never goes beyond ego=that which one already 'knows'.
just began listening and still gonna hear you out, yet one thing i'd like to share/express at this point:
the 'tragedy' is that no-one decides whether, when and (what seems to be more importantly) where one is born -and when or how one dies, at least not consciously;
and perhaps the question should be how would a life of 500yrs serve such being as the human...
perhaps the real question is why do we actually die at all? could it have something to do with self-sustainability, energy and systems?
The older generation has to 'move over' .. die for the next upcoming generation. It's the natural order of things - the cycle. It there was no death, or vastly extended life-times, the entire dynamics of everything (pschologically and physically as well as the dynamics of economics, politics etc. of the world) would change dramatically.
The old dying allows the young to have their turn, at the (usual) growth, experiencies .. the phases/stages of their journey .. as the old did. I suspect ....
The problem might be that too much of what passes as a technological advance has no wisdom. You have to wonder WHAT kind of species worries compulsively about extending individual lives when all around them there is so much pain and so much poverty.
@2bsirius I can understand that sentiment, but I see the pursuit of life extension as just one more way in which we attempt to end said suffering. In order to live longer we first must end disease. Disease is one of the main causes of aging (damage to the system). The group does eventually benefit from the advances of the few. Sometimes it just takes a while.
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TWITfromURANUS 1 year ago
My life has seemed very short and only seems shorter as I get older. Granted I remember thinking when I was a child that I would never be a adult, now more than half my life I have been a adult and it seems like not very long ago I was a child. The candle just burns faster and faster as I get older. It was the awareness of time and how we as humans used it in the way we do that helped me become self aware as a young teenager.
mojomanhand 1 year ago
That was exactly the way I saw it in the early sixties. Fifty years later, it's STILL the same.
But THAT minute sure gets shorter...
Favorited.
beachcomber2008 1 year ago
/watch?v=YtyDnO683ow
almafarag 1 year ago
Not so sure what you're getting at here Anton. Ofcourse whenever you die you will have lived up to that point and so you've been fully 'alive' until you died, but you do have a frame of reference or comparison. You can look at someone else and say 'Hey, it's not fair, they had so much more than me!' Imagine you lived in a box for ten years and you were then let out and five seconds later died. Having found out that there was so much more to see, you'd certainly feel hard done by, and rightly so.
Lpoolboy 1 year ago
There's that pesky language again, granting us access to that world, not of sensory experience, but to the world that was before this moment, and to the world that will be, to say nothing of the world that might have been or the world that may yet be or, the root of morality, the world that someone thinks should be.
HigherPlanes 1 year ago
I read about an experiment that a psychologist did a while back. He asked people of different ages to estimate the duration of a minute (that is, to press a button when they thought a minute had elapsed). What he found was that younger people underestimated and older people overestimated. He concluded that the perception of time changes as we age. Younger people really do perceive time as passing more slowly. I tried it myself. Sure enough, I overestimated the duration of a minute!
Ramiiam 1 year ago
it is all comparative rate, an hour to a child is a long time because it is a big slice
of what they have experienced. This diminishes and even a day or a week seems short when you get old. Any life extension will make years seem to fly past in a
blur. Arriving at Alpha Centauri we will remark that it seems like only yesterday
that we left Earth behind.
tyrbolo 1 year ago
viva la muerte!
and she unfolds her arms and wraps them around me like a smooth blanket of heavy fog resting heavy on my eyelids taking away the fear and soothing away the pain her cool kiss liberating, frees me from the shackles of life.
pronchie1 1 year ago
Yes. Comparing can be a key component in people's suffering. The good old ego shooting itself in the foot again.
Nice vid.
TWITfromURANUS 1 year ago
Nice points. The distribution of human memories is denser among the childhood(after 5 yrs) and adolescence and is called the 'Reminiscence bump', having to do with flashbulb memory. I just read yesterday a great related article in wiki. The time when we are young, seems distorted and dilated , because the proportion of any given childhood day over the total amount of one's life is bigger, than an adult's 'Day over life' ratio. Hence, the distortion.
Neueregel 1 year ago
i wouldn't say life made sure it never cheats itself; that would imply that life is based in knowledge only and defined in separation;
i'd see it as follows: it is the system as who each one is that 'makes sure' that it is (perceived as) 'complete' in itself, as it exists in self-definition which is the separation that creates ego, at the same time making sure one never goes beyond ego=that which one already 'knows'.
quite a fucked-up design the human existence :o
does it have to be this way?
BellaBargilly 1 year ago
when ppl say Basquiat wasted his life concerning his drug use and his "early demise" I always respond "Look at all the WORK he did though!!"
oldhacks 1 year ago
just began listening and still gonna hear you out, yet one thing i'd like to share/express at this point:
the 'tragedy' is that no-one decides whether, when and (what seems to be more importantly) where one is born -and when or how one dies, at least not consciously;
and perhaps the question should be how would a life of 500yrs serve such being as the human...
perhaps the real question is why do we actually die at all? could it have something to do with self-sustainability, energy and systems?
BellaBargilly 1 year ago
Unless science is going to fiddle with the time cycle of the reproductive process of the female also, the world will become entirely unbalanced
matrixflower13 1 year ago
.... most elderley nearing death understand and accept this as a natural and necessary order of things.
matrixflower13 1 year ago
The older generation has to 'move over' .. die for the next upcoming generation. It's the natural order of things - the cycle. It there was no death, or vastly extended life-times, the entire dynamics of everything (pschologically and physically as well as the dynamics of economics, politics etc. of the world) would change dramatically.
The old dying allows the young to have their turn, at the (usual) growth, experiencies .. the phases/stages of their journey .. as the old did. I suspect ....
matrixflower13 1 year ago
The problem might be that too much of what passes as a technological advance has no wisdom. You have to wonder WHAT kind of species worries compulsively about extending individual lives when all around them there is so much pain and so much poverty.
2bsirius 1 year ago
@2bsirius I can understand that sentiment, but I see the pursuit of life extension as just one more way in which we attempt to end said suffering. In order to live longer we first must end disease. Disease is one of the main causes of aging (damage to the system). The group does eventually benefit from the advances of the few. Sometimes it just takes a while.
tecnoblix 1 year ago