The Brain’s Sloppy Sync
Brief synopsis of this ‘well worth a read’ article:
Our brains laboriously create the illusion that our sensory inputs actually match the temporal realities on the world (touch your nose and toe at the same time, the illusion is that it feels like you are feeling those touches at the same time, the reality is that your brain feels those touches at different times because the length the nerve signal has to travel, but the brain pauses for a moment, waiting for nerve signals from the most distant regions of the body before really letting ‘you’ know about the touches). This obviously means that we are living slightly in the past, all the time (about a tenth of a second).
This sophisticated system is hackable, especially as you start mixing other senses into the synchronization slop, and suggests that time is less objective than generally thought.
One amazing mind hack mentioned in the article can create the illusory reversal of cause and effect.
Good stuff for sure!
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