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Your Thoughts Are the Fastest Things You Can Experience
If we're all trapped in the past by the slowness of our nervous system, what would be the most present, the most in the nol that we could be? Well, if youand he actually disagreed with karl's guess. He said, even if you think the simplest thought that it is possible to think, it's probably still going to be on the order of a quarter of a second, half second. You have to get away from the conscious brain. No thinking, no seeing. Sudden loud noise activates a very specialized circuit from your ear to your spinal neurons. If you suddenly hear a loud noise, within 50 milla seconds, 50 thousandths of seconds
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