Endless days… Time… Infinity… Zero…

A Duke University researcher has a new explanation for why those endless days of childhood seemed to last so much longer than they do now – physics. According to Adrian Bejan, the J.A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke, this apparent temporal discrepancy can be blamed on the ever-slowing speed at which images are obtained and processed by the human brain as the body ages. As tangled webs of nerves and neurons mature, they grow in size and complexity, leading to longer paths for signals to traverse. As those paths then begin to age, they also degrade, giving more resistance to the flow of electrical signals. These phenomena cause the rate at which new mental images are acquired and processed to decrease with age — infants process images faster than adults, their eyes move more often, acquiring and integrating more information. The end result is that, because older people are viewing fewer new images in the same amount of actual time, it seems to them as though time is passing more quickly. [1]

Time passes by. No matter what we do.

In the beginning we processed everything.

At the end, we will process nothing.

The result is not different, but all the same.

Analyze everything and you reach a point where analysis will be pointless.

Analyze nothing and you will realize that you have analyzed everything.

Infinity is born from zero.

Zero lies within infinity.

Drawing circles on the ephemeral sand.

Erased by the breeze beside the sea.

Look at that ant walking.

It may never reach its destination.

But…

Does it have to?

Author: skakos

Spiros Kakos is a thinker located in Greece. He has been Chief Editor of Harmonia Philosophica since its inception. In the past he has worked as a senior technical advisor for many years. In his free time he develops software solutions and contributes to the open source community. He has also worked as a phD researcher in the Advanced Materials sector related to the PCB industry. He likes reading and writting, not only philosophy but also in general. He believes that science and religion are two sides of the same coin and is profoundly interested in Religion and Science philosophy. His philosophical work is mainly concentrated on an effort to free thinking of "logic" and reconcile all philosophical opinions under the umbrella of the "One" that Parmenides - one of the first thinkers - visualized. The "Harmonia Philosophica" articles program is the tool that will accomplish that. Life's purpose is to be defeated by greater things. And the most important things in life are illogical. We must fight the dogmatic belief in "logic" if we are to stay humans... Credo quia absurdum!

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