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If time can be divided infinitely you can live any moment forever

I forget the man's name, but he died a couple of years ago and was an amateur chemist who used himself to test a bunch of different psychedelics that he discovered. In one case, he swore that him and his wife spent an eternity within one second. They were looking at a clock and the second hand was frozen, they both confirmed this happened independently of each other. Take it for what it's worth, but the mind may control time.

Or the mind might simply be able to control the perception of time.

(which leads into the question "What is time?")

You're probably referring to Alexander and Ann Shulgin.

There is nothing exceptional in having the perception of time altered. This happens usually in accidents and such https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_motion_perception

I felt this in a car crash once. It feels really strange.

To have this same experience triggered by a chemical is not hard to believe.

"Take it for what it's worth, but the mind may control time."

Or perhaps, this is merely an illusory effect due to the drugs affect on perception and cognition?

Occam's Razor - which is the more likely?

...said a person who never learned calculus.

You may find an interesting read about the subject in a book of Murakami Heruaki, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard-Boiled_Wonderland_and_t...

Ok, Xeno.

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