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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Mar 2019
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    Is there a way to try this experiment? Some neurochemical that slows down rate of neuronal firing by 10x? Presumably our time resolution is related to rate of state changes in neocortex.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1103180079536910336 …

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    If our time consciousness had a resolution of 1 second instead of 0.1 second we’d experience reality as a somewhat jerky movie. Like a movie sampled every 30 frames.
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      2. Adam J Calhoun‏Verified account @neuroecology 5 Mar 2019
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        You can slow down parts of the brain by making them really cold... This is done with animals but I have no idea how safe it actually is

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      3. Arkarup Banerjee‏ @ArkarupBanerjee 6 Mar 2019
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        Cooling human brain is possible and safe.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26924439 …

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      1. Andrea Kuszewski  🧠‏Verified account @AndreaKuszewski 5 Mar 2019
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        You might want to look at @davideagleman’s work and writings about time perception

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      2. JJ 「cιtιƶεɳƒιvε」  🏴‍☠️‏ @CTZN5 6 Mar 2019
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        it's called aging and you're not going to like it

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        JJ 「cιtιƶεɳƒιvε」  🏴‍☠️ Retweeted The Cthaeh

        and this is called confabulation, and is present in dementias and other neurodegenerative pathologies (alzheimers, etc). also it is happening long before anyone notices it.https://twitter.com/Alakest/status/1103221555566440453 …

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        I suspect we'd have some way of "filling-in" the gaps to return a smoothness and continuity like our mental model fills our visual field despite having only a fraction of it in live acuity.
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      1. ☆a curious person☆‏ @RachelJoyVictor 5 Mar 2019
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        Alcohol has a retarding effect on certain neuronal firing. One area this affects is vision: specifically, our saccades--the ability to shift focus--which becomes jerky. Not sure that we cognitively correspond this altered visual input back to perception of time, though

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        https://www.quora.com/Which-drug-slows-down-the-brains-perception-of-time …

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        My transhumanist altered consciousness feature request is to be able to subjectively experience my own life as a cinematic montage, a series of short clips with music in the background: https://twitter.com/singareddynm/status/1099708264592408577 …

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      2. Patrick Steadman‏ @ptsteadman 6 Mar 2019
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        You could probably roughly accomplish this by experimenting with all the currently unscheduled arylcyclohexylamines but you’d probably also torpedo your life in the process

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        Safer bet would be extremely intense competitive cardio exercise, but I think as other people have noted this tends to “stretch out” 0.1 second into 1 second rather that create the perception of slices of perception

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