Your perception of Right Now is a rolling time window 2-3 seconds wide, which is pretty dang far from instantaneous. That's wild to me.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/

Saccadic Masking is one of my favorite examples of this. @foone@twitter.com did a fun thread a couple of weeks ago about how eye movements make our subjectivity time travel.

twitter.com/Foone/status/10142

The first half of this video addresses what it means in terms of music i.e. "what's the slowest beat you can headbang to?"

"What is the slowest music humanly possible?" [Adam Neely, 15:53] youtube.com/watch?v=afhSDK5DJq

Anyway your experience of the world is an janky-ass active construct of your brain, not any kind of pass-through feed on "reality".

And that's why I have a necker cube tattoo.

(lol I didn't notice the edit-induced typo of "an janky-ass" but I think I actually like it better that way)

@Felthry it's the wireframe cube in the attached image, the one you can mentally flip so either "face" is forwards.

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