Special Relativity. Lifetime.

[Stoneheart]

[Little lunch]

I think our brains do slow down time, all the time, but you, the interface, are oblivious.

[Stoneheart]

I think our brains do slow down time, all the time, but you, the interface, are oblivious.

Sense of time?
Like time feeling fast when having fun or time dragging on when not.
Or time feeling slow when waiting and expecting something.


Like the feeling of time slowing down when adrenaline kicks in (as the mind speeds up).

[Peebothuhlu]

At work.

Your subjective experience doesn't effect objective reality.

We can't push clouds with our minds.

[Fireball]

[Stoneheart]

At work.

Your subjective experience doesn't effect objective reality.

We can't push clouds with our minds.

If you can use subjective experience by entering an alternative reality to extend the amount of thought in relation to time then you have affected objective reality. Time to think.

Cant bring physical things back but information from thought is possible or perhaps practicing coordination on some new dancing moves.

[The Grand Nudger]

The mind doesn't actually "move" all that fast, and you've employed a shift in meaning at the outset.

The brain "moves" so slowly, that you can drown out it's ability to transmit everyday signals..just by playing a musical instrument, or raking a garden. That feeling of things "speeding up" for example..that's not actually your brain changing speeds, it's just struggling to assign the usual processing power to the item in your attention. Time "slowing down"..much the same, but in reverse. It;s task list has been cleared, your focus has been allocated to that item to the exclusion of others.

If, instead, we contained ourselves to wondering whether the brain can take a moment in time, in it;s recollection, and "pause" it, or fast forward or reverse to replay it, even imagining other decisions and outcomes...then yes. That may actually be the evolutionary function of all that brainpower we have between our ears. To play, and project, and derive useful information from the recollection of past events to be accessed in future circumstances. In this way, we can circumvent the problem of it's signal speed and capacity. We don't have to think things through when they happen, we can have a plan in place, selected out of and endless array of potentialities, of waking and sleeping dreams - possibly saving that one moment in future time that saves our life.

In any case, none of the information in your brain is coming from some alternate dimension..it isn't even coming from across the room in this dimension. It's thoroughly local. You aren't going anywhere to bring anything back from.

You're already there.

[Alex K]

What do you even mean by the mind moving fast? Physical movement through space?

[ignoramus]

I trust this won't turn into a woo fest ...

[Alex K]

I trust this won't turn into a woo fest ...

There's not much turning left to do...