• beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    2 days ago

    I’m going to knock your shoes off with real science.

    All our senses, touch, hearing, seeing, smell, taste, vision, are all based on a delayed system where a thing is sensed and then a little later the brain gets that information and processes it. In other words we live in the past while our bodies are in the present reacting to the future.

    After smelling a bear the brain reacts and sends a message to the legs to run like hell. However the bear has already grabbed you so as a result someone else who did run far away enough hears your cries from a few milliseconds in the past, turns around and sees your legs waggling like you wanted to run.

    We are basically only aware of the recent past from a few milliseconds ago.