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>or even current perceptions This is always fun to think about, that there's lag to everything from the time light bounces off an object and travels to my reti

>or even current perceptions This is always fun to think about, that there's lag to everything from the time light bounces off an object and travels to my retina to the processing my brain does to understand what it's being shown. So by the time I have processed a visual "reality" it doesn't exist in that state any longer. Add in relativity and I could be experiencing a different time than someone else, AND a different space. If we are fundamentally fluctuations in various quantum fields coalesced into energetic matter that can interact with each other, the lag time between that field fluctuating and those fluctuations interacting with other fluctuations makes me marvel that we can even interact with each other lol

TeMPOraL 3y ago
> This is always fun to think about, that there's lag to everything from the time light bounces off an object and travels to my retina to the processing my brain does to understand what it's being shown. It's even funnier (or more disturbing) to think about all the ungodly pile of hacks this processing entails - like using the high-level understanding of how the scene is lit to override color perception (see: tower / checkerboard color illusion), interpolating or otherwise guessing most of what we "see" (see: saccade, blind spot), and lying about passage of time to "cover the tracks" of all the hackery that's going on.
- I_Am_Nous 3y ago
  I have ADHD and I've noticed that for some reason, color is one of the things my brain will autofilter and remove. I still see color, but I will have times were someone mentions something being a certain color and my vision suddenly updates what I'm seeing to be the "correct" color it was all along. Honestly it's humbling to acknowledge that I have no true understanding of anything that's going on around me and can only survive because our brains are incredibly tuned guessing machines.

TeMPOraL 3y ago

> This is always fun to think about, that there's lag to everything from the time light bounces off an object and travels to my retina to the processing my brain does to understand what it's being shown. It's even funnier (or more disturbing) to think about all the ungodly pile of hacks this processing entails - like using the high-level understanding of how the scene is lit to override color perception (see: tower / checkerboard color illusion), interpolating or otherwise guessing most of what we "see" (see: saccade, blind spot), and lying about passage of time to "cover the tracks" of all the hackery that's going on.

I_Am_Nous 3y ago
I have ADHD and I've noticed that for some reason, color is one of the things my brain will autofilter and remove. I still see color, but I will have times were someone mentions something being a certain color and my vision suddenly updates what I'm seeing to be the "correct" color it was all along. Honestly it's humbling to acknowledge that I have no true understanding of anything that's going on around me and can only survive because our brains are incredibly tuned guessing machines.