 Suppose we were able, within the length of a second, to note 10,000 events distinctly, instead of barely 10, as now; if our life were then destined to hold the same number of impressions, it might be 1000 times as short.  Public Opinion - 第 139 頁Walter Lippmann 著 - 1922 - 427 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
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...processes probably play as important a part in giving the feeling of duration to the specious present. We have every reason to think that creatures may possibly...in the fineness of the events that may fill it. Von Bser has indulged* in some interesting computations of the effect of such differences in changing the... | |
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