Su lectura reflexiva de hoy: A french chronobiologist (he studies time and living things) named Michael Siffre once conducted a hell of a self experiment. He spent two months in a cave alone. No clock, calendar, or sun light. He did have artificial lights, food, and a journal though. His experiment is covered in the excellent book ‘Moonwalking With Einstein’. It makes some pertinent points more eloquently than I could, so I will quote it at length right now. “Very quickly Siffre’s memory deteriorated… Since there was nobody to talk to, and not much to do, there was nothing novel to impress upon his memory. There were no chronological landmarks by which he could measure the passage of time… When his support team on the surface finally called down to him on September 14th, the day his experiment was scheduled to wrap up, it was only August 20th in his journal. He thought only a month had gone by. His experience of time’s passage had compressed by a factor of two. Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthy and live a long life while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next—and disappear. That’s why it’s important to…have as many new experiences as possible… Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perceptions of our lives.”
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:20:11 +0000
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