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Inner Cosmos, with David Eagleman

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Effect of Conscious Awareness on Perception

Your conscious awareness of something is always the slowest thing on the ladder to ever get any information. By the time your brain puts together all the signals and says, Okay, this is what just happened, that's at least half a second behind real time. Your body can react much faster than that. So there's not actually any, any increased ability of perception. It's just a trick of the memory.

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