Because the brain is larger? No, I don't think it works like that. The impression of time passing is something of an illusion generated by the mind. Different cognitive tasks take longer or shorter periods of time, depending on your familiarity with them, capability, and natual capacity to comprehend them. The brain perceives 'now' as what it imagines will be happening in the near future; it synchronises body motion and reaction to stimulus into the same mental point in time.

Ehn... there's really no way to judge. A whale thinks in a very different way to us. You can't really compare something such as the perception of the passage of time without an open mind and a great deal of scientific research.

But imagine this scenario:

A King Kong 1000 meters tall climbs a skyscraper 1000 meters tall with a woman in his hand. The woman decides to leap into her death and continues to fall for minute or two, screaming the entire time. At the same time, the King Kong jumps after her, although the jump is no big deal for him; just a regular jump... And yet, they're both falling for two minutes. So how does the King Kong perceive this time?

How does a fly perceive time compared to us?

>>127

A fly is too alien.

King Kong would probably perceive life in a similar way to us. A fall of 1000m is more lethal to Kong than it is to a human, by the way.

Kong's brain is larger than a human's but it probably works the same way. We can assume that his brain has evolved to cope with his great size. Still, it would take about 14 seconds to fall 1000m, which is the very definition of 14 seconds... he'd remember the fall in the same way as a person. The question is, would he notice more or less during that period of time? For Kong, who's used to capering about at those speeds, he'd be more aware of his surroundings; the woman, who isn't used to it, may notice less, but because it's a novel experience, it may appear to her to last longer.

Creatures are not aware of the passage of time; they are simply able to order it in their memory and imagination. Different creatures fill up that space with differing degrees of information.

Perceived time is a manifestation of the quantum decay of light speed photons, which exist outside of
our space time continuum.

>>135

You don't really mean that, do you?

SAGE has been used.

No I don't think so. But i'm sure animals/creatures that can live a very long time probably "space out" for long period of time. Like how a human can take a 12 hour nap, which is longer than the life span of some extremely small organisms. And in a week we outlive thousand of bugs and shit like that.

So if that whale lived for like 500 years, then sure he would pay attention to the flow of time in a different way than us.

yes OP, it correlates with BPM

shrews for example live in a meth world, a lifetime in a few years

>>140
Really years? I've read that 18 months is the average lifespan. ;_;

>>127
Ah, I see. So you're speaking of the differences in scales of existence and thus in the perceived relatively of things. For example, an ant traversing a 100 meter field in comparison to a man with a 1.5 meter stride. Perception and salience have a large role in the interpretation of temporal passage as >>129 has stated. Think about the difference between a routine drive to and from work. When you try and pay attention to everything you see and pass, the ride seems more drawn out. When you learn to ignore the visual stimuli after the umpteenth commute and focus on an endless loop of music, the ride may be perceived as being shorter. But also, the rates of reactions in the brain coincide with the rate of cognition and may skew the perception of time.

so, would a microscopic human being perceive time (initially) differently than a giant human being?

I know that new experiences make time seem longer, which is why your childhood seems like such a huge chunk of your life. So i think it has more to do with lifespan than with size. The longer you live, the fewer new experiences you will have every day. After all, this is about temporal perception, not spacial perception.

I think that time is both relative to mass and perception, only problem there is that how would we know that, because there's no way to actually measure time. Sure, there are second, that's agreed value, but how do you know that one person perceives one second as as long time as someone else. What I feel, is that there actually is some particles for time, maybe invisible or so, because if time was absolute, it would be same for everyone. When it comes to black holes, they have mass so great, even light cannot escape, and I think that same applies to time. Just to clear things up, why do I believe that time has particles? I believe strictly in law of conservation of mass, and do not believe that time has a starting point, just like any atom. Sorry if I made no sense, english isn't my first language. What do you think?