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Ed Yong on how animal senses reveal the world around us

The TED Interview

CHAPTER

Your Relationship to Time

Everything we perceive is basically stuffed that is happening right now. For sighted humans a this vision is is very primary its. It's the sense that we rely on most. And so, you know, the way in which we see the world is very rooted in the present. When when i watch him sniffing, it's like looking at an astronomer watching the light of distant stars. You're really looking into events that happened a bit in the past.

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