Although, I like to think I'm able to conceptualize my whole life uo to now as a stretch of time that is the present, which becomes smudged to something smaller than a point if looked at from a far, in a broader context of past, present and future. The missing link is the inherent uncertainty of the potential effects that my actions cause in the future. So, I want to argue it's not the time perception for which I have limited capacity, but the possibilities that are sheer endless. Of course, considerations of the past are pretty much as uncertain as the future. Hence feelings of remorse can cover both hindsight and fear.
Of course, lower beings, users under acute drug overdose or other reduced states of conciousness have shorter feedback loops. Say, you are half-asleep and consistently dip in and out of consciousness because the darn bird outside started chirping again, then each moment will be largely disconnect. Vice-versa, prolonged states of consistency (wording?) may count as one. What I'm saying is, time is the rate of change.
If v=s/t, logicly t=s/v.
If we ask how long the answer is usually measured in time. The way doesn't change, it's constant. The speed has a theoretical maximum. And what changes is the scenery outside, the worsening nausea, the numbing legs.
Whereas trolling on HN feels like almost no time passes, because it takes almost no effort, and changes hardly anything, except that I might grow tired (avoiding thoughts about Heisenberg and Einstein, och)
True. Why now? Why not any other "time"? These are questions that are very similar to "Why 'I'?", "Why not anyone else?". Maybe time and consciousness are deeply related, or even based on the same principle?