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Ep68 "What if our brains worked a trillion times faster?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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Exploring Time Scales and Human Perception

The chapter delves into how humans leverage technologies to observe events beyond our natural perception, touching on high-speed photography, telescopes, microscopes, and imagining rapid processes. It discusses how our ability to extrapolate and conceptualize allows us to understand phenomena across different time scales, contrasting human capabilities with those of animals like squirrels.

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