Human experience: watered down, diluted, dismissed, our experiences are mostly ditched, ignored, tossed away. Rarely do we cultivate wisdom. Many experiences are wasted time because we don’t take the time to reflect on what they mean and where they might lead us. We are in a trance most of the time.
Sadly, I suspect you're right. Perhaps a reorientation toward a human-centric measurement might afford us a more comprehensive perspective of our experience.
Not quite Protagoras's "Of all things, the measure is man"... but rather, "Of some things, man is the measure."
An interesting thought would be to add all the total years lived by the 8.2 billion residents together. For example, total years lived for 10 people of the ages of 10, 35, 50, 55, 60, 61, 67, 70, 71, and 77 would be 556 years. Imagine how large a number total years lived would be for over 8 billion people. We would probably need exponents.
Time always moves faster as we age, when we were 10 a year was 1/10 of our life, when 20 1/20th of our life. Now that I;m 65, 1/65th doesn;t seem like much.
One type of time must be described as a perspective of motion. We look at a snail the same way a hummingbird looks at us. One side of the garden to the other is a busy day for Sidney the snail and he works from home.
Human experience: watered down, diluted, dismissed, our experiences are mostly ditched, ignored, tossed away. Rarely do we cultivate wisdom. Many experiences are wasted time because we don’t take the time to reflect on what they mean and where they might lead us. We are in a trance most of the time.
Sadly, I suspect you're right. Perhaps a reorientation toward a human-centric measurement might afford us a more comprehensive perspective of our experience.
Not quite Protagoras's "Of all things, the measure is man"... but rather, "Of some things, man is the measure."
An interesting thought would be to add all the total years lived by the 8.2 billion residents together. For example, total years lived for 10 people of the ages of 10, 35, 50, 55, 60, 61, 67, 70, 71, and 77 would be 556 years. Imagine how large a number total years lived would be for over 8 billion people. We would probably need exponents.
Some days one is more the captive of the calendar than the muse?
Time always moves faster as we age, when we were 10 a year was 1/10 of our life, when 20 1/20th of our life. Now that I;m 65, 1/65th doesn;t seem like much.
One type of time must be described as a perspective of motion. We look at a snail the same way a hummingbird looks at us. One side of the garden to the other is a busy day for Sidney the snail and he works from home.
A piquant reminder that technological leaps have outrun any corresponding growth in wise self-governance.”
8 billion minutes per minute is strangely poetic.
How many Human Years in an AI year? Might explain the current exponential acceleration some of us may feel. :-)