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Over The Last Few Millennia We've Invented A Series Of Technologies - From The Alphabet To The Scroll To The Codex, The Printing Press, Photography, The Computer, The Smartphone - That Have Made It Progressively Easier And Easier For Us To Externalize Our Memories, For Us To Essentially Outsource This Fundamental Human Capacity.

Monotony Collapses Time; Novelty Unfolds It. You Can Exercise Daily And Eat Healthily And Live A Long Life, While Experiencing A Short One. If You Spend Your Life Sitting In A Cubicle And Passing Papers, One Day Is Bound To Blend Unmemorably Into The Next - And Disappear.

Languages Are Something Of A Mess. They Evolve Over Centuries Through An Unplanned, Democratic Process That Leaves Them Teeming With Irregularities, Quirks, And Words Like 'knight.'

Life Seems To Speed Up As We Get Older Because Life Gets Less Memorable As We Get Older.

Just As We Accumulate Memories Of Facts By Integrating Them Into A Network, We Accumulate Life Experiences By Integrating Them Into A Web Of Other Chronological Memories. The Denser The Web, The Denser The Experience Of Time.