Isn’t the fact that we perceive all the quantities on a logarithmic scale far wider than the specific effects? We find it again and again and again, from sound perception to explicit amount perception to this. (Note that it is an even wider claim than mattnewport’s.) So the distance between 8 and 9 years is not the same as distance between 1 month and 1 year + 1 month because the logarithms’ difference… erm… differs; and suggestion to give something “now” is then just as infinite as probability 1.
Isn’t the fact that we perceive all the quantities on a logarithmic scale far wider than the specific effects? We find it again and again and again, from sound perception to explicit amount perception to this. (Note that it is an even wider claim than mattnewport’s.) So the distance between 8 and 9 years is not the same as distance between 1 month and 1 year + 1 month because the logarithms’ difference… erm… differs; and suggestion to give something “now” is then just as infinite as probability 1.