Mathematical Theories of Experiential Time - The Nuhn-McLaughlin Theory by Dan McLaughlin
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT’S relativity." -- Albert Einstein (Vohs, 217). Everyone knows that time seems to go faster or slower depending on what you are doing. It is also common wisdom that as people grow older, time seems to go by quicker. Though merely a phenomenon of perception, this idea is not beyond the realm of mathematical and scientific enquiry. This paper presents two attempts to create mathematical models of this phenomenon of perception.
Mathematical Theories of Experiential Time - The Nuhn-McLaughlin Theory by Dan McLaughlin
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An easily understood, workable falsehood is more useful than a complex, incomprehensible truth.
Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand wrong answers. Having found my previously workable falsehoods to be unworkable in my current circumstances, I am finding it difficult to discover a new workable falsehood. It took me a long time to put together the first system of workable falsehoods. It worked very well and I was sure it would be adequate. It was troubling to have it fail. The framework was flexible and had withstood many shocks. It was able to spring back into place or to bend permanently into a slightly modified shape that was usually an improvement. Circumstances occurred that stressed the framework in such a way that some pieces snapped and the framework collapsed. I fear that I am too old to adequately rebuild a new framework system. I also fear that any new system of workable falsehoods that I develop will fail as miserably and completely as my previous one did. These failures tend to happen when one is under the greatest stress and a useful heuristic is most needed. The best we can ever do is muddle through. A good system helps you to muddle through with confidence and peace. I will continue to muddle through the best that I can but it is extremely unpleasant to muddle through without peace. |
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