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I'm sure I'm missing some important nuance or something, but it sounds like what they're saying is, "You can understand spoken words because your brain processe

by smeej 4y ago

I'm sure I'm missing some important nuance or something, but it sounds like what they're saying is, "You can understand spoken words because your brain processes the sounds in the order you hear them." This sounds like the most obvious thing in the world to me. Everything about me experiences time sequentially. If I remember things, I can cast my mind back in time, but I still remember things from beginning to end, not in some other order. I'd have assumed my brain processes my visual inputs sequentially too. I can't even think what other option there might be. Somehow everything I've seen or heard over some set period of time hits me all at once? What am I missing here?

LocalH 4y ago
> Everything about me experiences time sequentially. That's not entirely true. Ever look at a clock with a second hand and see the hand linger a little longer the first second? Congratulations, you just saw things out of order. Your brain did not receive input for the period of time when your eyes were in motion towards the clock, so it lied to you and filled in the missing data after the fact once it started getting visual input again.
- smeej 4y ago
  ...but it still put it before the hand moved, so it's still sequential, even if the gap was filled in with something that didn't happen (the hand standing still) rather than my brain guessing that the hand moved once before the one I saw, isn't it?