by Gary C. Gibson

Created on: November 26, 2009   Last Updated: December 06, 2009

If time passes faster as human beings age, because of an increasing pace of acceleration of the Universe, do we notice? When younger we regard only the particular immediate perceptions of being as the given. As time passes the continuing expansion of space-time becomes noticeable, for human minds are something of a spiritual rather than simply unreflective material nature. The insentient material, noumenal Universe for-itself is drawn from a material foundation without a functioning brain-it does not notice expansion. If space-time itself expands all things within relatively expand along with it except the mind. The phenomena the mind refers to might be noticed however, to expand.

The mind collects information as time passes increasing faster and the normal relationship to space-time alters challenging our historical cognitive relationship to events.

Of course its possible that the brain expansion in the space-time field is a given as well, and that human thought with memories of prior space-time relations to the brain's spatial processing functions experiences a contingent alteration within the brain-mind unity. If depth perception is a learned rather than an innate cognitive mental experience, time perception may be such as well. When the Universe changes sufficiently for a mind to notice a different rate of change than before in relation to the mind, it may be as if one noticed that the speed o flow of a river passing in front of one has changed, yet of course human beings perceive only the rate of change of time from within rather than objectively on a river bank.

Time seems to pass more quickly with age if everything is going well enough. If one is in the company of boors, sadists or torturers I suppose it drags on with the meaningless timelessness that we can never experience, if we are lucky, when young. Yet it is the familiarity with experience of time that makes it's rate of passage seem faster. Integrated with the body a little less as we age because or minds become the owner of a body with more reflective time and experience to be aware of it's faults and limitations, pains, injuries and so forth, time slips away as we observe the aging and changes that have a pace of their own.

It is the inexorable physiological changes, and the challenges of meeting pressing economic and social needs that presses the pace of time upon us. As youth's time passes quite as quickly as we have the full range of illnesses and accidents yet we focus more upon those perhaps

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