• @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071211233934.htm

    Even though participants remembered their own falls as having taken one-third longer than those of the other study participants, they were not able to see more events in time. Instead, the longer duration was a trick of their memory, not an actual slow-motion experience.

    Your memory is imperfect. But your actual capacity to perceive time is still limited by the facilities you use for that prescription.

    • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      17 months ago

      One experimental result does not define the entire domain of consciousness.

      You are essentially making a statement of the form “X does not and cannot exist”, which is always a logical fallacy.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        17 months ago

        You are essentially making a statement of the form “X does not and cannot exist”

        Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This is a Family Guy meme.