I think you are probably attending more often to sensory experiences, and thereby both creating and remembering more detailed representations of physical reality.
You are probably doing less abstract thought, since the number of seconds in a day hasn’t changed.
Which do you want to spend more time on? And which sorts? It’s a pretty personal question. I like to try to make my abstract thought productive (relative to my values), freeing up some time to enjoy sensory experiences.
I’m not sure there’s a difference in representational density in doing sensory experience vs. abstract thought. Maybe there is. One factor in making it seem like you’re having more sensory experience is how much you can remember after a set amount of time; another is whether each moment seems more intense by having strong emotional experience attached to it.
Or maybe you mean something different by more subjective experience.
You are definitely right about tradeoff of my direct sensory experience vs other things my brain could be doing like calculation or imagination. I hope with practice or clever tool use I will get better at something like doing multiple modes at once, task switching faster between modes, or having a more accurate yet more compressed integrated gestalt self.
I think you are probably attending more often to sensory experiences, and thereby both creating and remembering more detailed representations of physical reality.
You are probably doing less abstract thought, since the number of seconds in a day hasn’t changed.
Which do you want to spend more time on? And which sorts? It’s a pretty personal question. I like to try to make my abstract thought productive (relative to my values), freeing up some time to enjoy sensory experiences.
I’m not sure there’s a difference in representational density in doing sensory experience vs. abstract thought. Maybe there is. One factor in making it seem like you’re having more sensory experience is how much you can remember after a set amount of time; another is whether each moment seems more intense by having strong emotional experience attached to it.
Or maybe you mean something different by more subjective experience.
You are definitely right about tradeoff of my direct sensory experience vs other things my brain could be doing like calculation or imagination. I hope with practice or clever tool use I will get better at something like doing multiple modes at once, task switching faster between modes, or having a more accurate yet more compressed integrated gestalt self.