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#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality

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What's the Difference Between Binding and Free Will?

There is this period of time and it's depending on the situation and the behavior. It can be anywhere from it's essentially half a second to 200 milliseconds I actually don't know. Our brains go through this process of binding to basically weave it all together so that our conscious experience of that is of seeing, hearing and feeling the ball hit the racket all at the same time. That's obviously most useful to us. So binding is is mostly about timing it can be about other things but your brain always making adjustments to make its best guess about the most useful present moment experience to deliver.

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