It takes longer for signals to reach your brain from your big toe than it does from your nose. But none of this is obvious to your perception: you collect up all the signals first, so that everything seems synchronized. The strange consequence of all this is that you live in the past. By the time you think the moment occurs, it’s already long gone. To synchronize the incoming information from the senses, the cost is that our conscious awareness lags behind the physical world. That’s the unbridgeable gap between an event occurring and your conscious experience of it.
...at any moment, what we experience as seeing relies less on the light streaming into our eyes, and more on what’s already inside our heads.
David Eagleman "The Brain - The story of you"
...at any moment, what we experience as seeing relies less on the light streaming into our eyes, and more on what’s already inside our heads.
David Eagleman "The Brain - The story of you"