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It is impossible to live in the present when all we see is the past.

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rockerface@lemmy.world
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Not only that, but electricity travels through nerves at a finite speed (that is less than light speed), and brain spends non-zero amount of time to piece together the reality you perceive from all of your senses. So yeah, there’s always a delay in your perception and IIRC there even are experiments that prove that

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DreamButt@lemmy.world
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This is the more salient point. Light is so much faster than our brains ability to communicate with itself

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Parastie@lemmy.world
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It’s even more strange! According to one paper, our brains are averaging the last 15 seconds of visual information!

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