Everyone sees 0.1 seconds into the future
by friver ~ June 2nd, 2008. Filed under: Strange Research.
So it’s like this: everything you see is a little late. It takes about one-tenth of a second for the stuff we see with our eyes to reach the brain. By then what we think we “see” in real time is actually one-tenth of a second in the past.
The human brain compensates by calculating, basically predicting, what it will see one-tenths of a second in advance. So what we actually see is the past, and our brain is constantly trying to figure out the future. Ain’t that cool?
