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34: The Replication Crisis, Human Senses, and Pride Flags

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The Holiday Paradox

The sense of the passage of time. This encompasses like the sleep-wake cycle, hormonal changes, metabolism. But it's also a deeply subjective sense because it is about how you personally perceive time. And like many of our other senses, it seems to diminish as we age. The holiday paradox. It's the idea that our brain encodes new experiences into memory but not familiar ones. If you could do new experiences, then time will seem to move slower. You know? I think it's quite an high concept.

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