Do we have a sense of time?
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The Effects of Age on the Brain
The brain grows up expecting a huge number of snapshots, meaning of impressions of change. If you eliminate the vision altogether, the animal design is equipped with other sensory organs such as hearing, touch, smell and taste. And so the perception of change is accessible to the living animal in many ways. With aging, this comes after body growth, the path of transmission is longer, the speed of transmission is lower. That means that in a fixed period of clock time, say from sunrise to sunset, the brain receives fewer snapshots.
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