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He could have made the descriptive passage correct simply by not pretending to be so quantitative. "Suppose your mind ran tens of thousands of times faster than normal."
Extraneous considerations of extraneous yet harmless quantitativeness would have been similarly suboptimal. The pseudo-quantativeness also has a positive effect upon the tone of the passage, for everyone but the one in a million who notice its extremely technical inaccuracy. This is not math, but writing.