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Does "Your Brain is a Time Machine" offer any explanation or even worthwhile studies on why time appears to speed up rapidly as we enter old age? There have been lot's of ideas, but no convincing evidence at all, as far as I know.

Yorgo Hello, I haven't read the book but I thought I might share an explanation I particularly like:

The older we become, the more we have live. As such, eac…moreHello, I haven't read the book but I thought I might share an explanation I particularly like:

The older we become, the more we have live. As such, each day, week, month, year lived becomes a tinier fraction of our lives compared to the years lived before. When you're 2 years old, living a new year adds 50% more content to your life - phfeww, that's a lot to experience! But when you're 50 years old, a year more only adds 2% content more to what you lived. Hence, our perception of time passing by could be influenced by the time we already lived.

Another complementary explanation could be that the more we have lived, the more we are creatures of habit and have automatized our behaviors. The more we live, the easier and more natural it becomes to live on "auto-pilot". Hence, we barely experience fully what we live anymore. We could hypothesize that a kid consciously experiences 100% of what he lives but that an adult consciously experiences only a fraction of what he lives.(less)

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Is this book an accessible read to someone relatively new to these fields? How would it compare to, for example, The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli?

Hendrik I found the order of time to be way more challenging in later parts

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