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It is impossible to live in the present when all we see is the past. (programming.dev)
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[–] rockerface 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] tdawg 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Parastie 3 points 2 years ago

It's even more strange! According to one paper, our brains are averaging the last 15 seconds of visual information!