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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Experiencing Less Novelty as We Age: Why Time Seems to Pass Faster

The reason why the years seem to go by faster as we get older is because there's less novelty in our lives./nExperiencing new things requires a lot of mental energy while well-known things are easier to process./nInputs that you receive get sucked into these well-worn trots in your current world model./nIt is hard to learn new things at a certain point in your life because the inputs that you're receiving get sucked into these well-worn trots in your current world model.

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