Amazing thread about our eyes, vision and our brain

[smithcorp]

This blew my mind:

[Sarsippius]

Yeah I think I have noticed that effect with the second hand before, sometimes you look at the clock and that first tick of the second hand seems to take longer and then it continues on like normal.

I have recently been listening to an audio book, The Great Courses - Critical Thinking, which is like a lecture series. The guys spends two or three 30m lectures right at the start talking about how our brain works and how it constructs our reality. All of our senses have similar things going on where our brains reconstruct the information that our senses feed to it.

There is a part of our brain which is responsible for that sense of our 'self' being centered inside our head, if this is damaged or inhibited in some way by drugs or something like that we actually feel like we inhabit a space somewhere outside and behind our body.

[wobblysauce]

Sense dangers, then process.

[norbs]

Brain Games is an awesome show about that shit.