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Unlimited Horizons
This 'extending' of events - to show us a wider range of details, - is the main function of time.
Once the learning is done, we automatically condense the newly acquired skills into one holistic experience, which we - from then onwards - do not experience as time-slices any more.
One example: As a toddler we needed all our concentration to place our feet in such a way as to move forward without falling over. As a grown up we never even think of the complex mind-body coordination required to walk along a floor, run after a ball, or just to fill a glass of water without spilling.
Another example: While learning how to drive a car, each single function, every single lever of the machine requires our deliberate conscious attention to operate. Yet once we got used to this process, we only think of our destination, of the road, of the task ahead, of a person we love etc. without much being aware that we are steering heavy machinery at considerable speed through often quite unpredictable surroundings.
The fact that we keep on experiencing time-slices just means that we still are in a process of learning, only that our attention shifted to more complex tasks. We might not be aware that we are learning something, yet this doesn't mean that we don't. - It pays to identify what major themes engage our attention so intensely
that time seems to expand while we experience them. Western science currently concerns itself only with matter, space and the timeline model.
