>If the brain simulates reality, why does our experience seem so 'atomic'? It doesn't, you p-zombie ;-)! Seriously, though: my conscious experience of the wor

>If the brain simulates reality, why does our experience seem so 'atomic'? It doesn't, you p-zombie ;-)! Seriously, though: my conscious experience of the world (what I'm subjectively aware of) is continuous (in the sense of modeling the world as continuous in time and space dimensions), but it's updated by messages from my sensory cortices at discrete intervals. So it's a continuous model updated at discrete intervals, which sounds screwy and is because it amounts to the brain "retconning" my experience of reality fast enough that I don't catch it in the act, because the best abstraction over my sensory data is that the world is actually continuous at human-scale. Which probably sounds incredibly confusing and would be a 4-page paper if I had to actually make it convincing. Goddamnit not again.