The Delay Effect on Perception

In the 1970s a neuroscientist named Benjamin Libet did some studies with people who were undergoing neurosurgery and those studies suggested that we lag as much as 500 milliseconds half a second. The consequence is that your conscious mind lives behind reality. It is delayed by a small window while your brain puts together its story. What you perceive is a delayed version of reality. Because the brain has to wait for this slow information to arrive this leads to the bizarre but testable prediction that tall people live further in the past than short people.