created 2025-05-21, & modified, =this.modified
rel: Lag
NOTE
Exploring this terrifying idea that my perception is so delayed that I can never fully be present, and might (playfully exploring here) in fact be seconds delayed. That hunch that you feel something before it is about to happen, just a propagation backwards of something that has already happened and is inescapable. Subjectively adrift.
What would a fantasy world where we are hours delayed from our various perceptions look like? How would we sync?
There is an increasing body of evidence that only a minuscule proportion of the sensory data processed by the unconscious mind (capable of processing approximately 11 million bits per second) is referred to the conscious mind (capable of processing approximately 50 bits per second). It is also clear that conscious awareness of stimuli from the environment lags behind actual perception by approximately half a second, but that a backward referral of subjective experience results in a individual’s perception of the stimulus and its conscious awareness as simultaneous
there is a substantial body of evidence that subliminal (literally ‘below the threshold’) perception (i.e., perception that is not available to consciousness) can be used in conscious processing.
In blindsight patients with damage to parts of the brain might not be aware they are seeing anything, but in tests of visual perception they score well above chance levels.
it has been found that people raised in cultures that do not build rectilinear structures do not experience the Müller‐Lyer illusion
Delay
…showed that the increase in readiness potential began 0.55 seconds before the act, but also, much more surprisingly, that the conscious decision occurred 0.2 seconds before the act. In other words, the conscious decision to act occurs 0.35 seconds after the body has started the mechanism to act!