What if as I get older, like a Mandela effect, everyone's understanding of what the average life span is increases?

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• Nemo@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sort of like Zeno’s Paradox? You never get old because when you’re sixty, people say, oh sixty’s not that old, seventy is old and when you’re seventy, people say seventy is the new fifty and when you’re eighty people say eighty’s nothing, people are living past a hundred all the time these days…? Something like that?

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  • Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah!

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    90 years young

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• teletext@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What?

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  • Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sorry, it’s very difficult to explain. I don’t think many people will get it in retrospect. I apologize.

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    • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nah. If you’re gonna put this in any community, this is the one…though I’ll admit the question could use some clarification.

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• Pronell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Maybe you’re thinking of something along the lines of Bishop Berkeley’s Theory of Immaterialism.

  Essentially, things only exist and continue to exist because we agree that they do and expect them to remain that way.

  Also featured in the children’s book Mr. Radagast Makes an Unexpected Journey, which I adored when I was younger.

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