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I think this blog post of mine from 2007 gives a better (or at least more succinct) answer to this question: https://thelocalyarn.com/article/this-is-your-life


That’s just some made up math-as-psychology that makes sense to nerds for some reason. Just conflating two completely different concepts.

Any explanation that doesn’t say anything about the mind is just baloney. Time here is an experiential phenomenon. It’s not fractions. Insert your pet theory in a context where adults have the same mindset as children and retain memories perfectly and have no reason to discard/compress memories them—you see that it’s totally irrelevant whether your life is 2/3 or 1/8 over. It has everything to do with how the mind works, not how numbers work.

Bonus points for the “unscientific representation of your potential cumulative effect”… which is very self-aware-useless.




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