October 25th, 2011
scaffeoa
We all go through life assuming that time is an external river that flows past us. But experiments in my laboratory over the past decade have shown that this is not precisely the case. Time is an active construction of the brain. We can set up simple experiments to make you believe that a flashed image lasted longer or shorter than it actually did, or that a burst of light happened before you pressed a button (even though you actually caused it with the button), or that a sound is beeping at a faster or slower rate than it actually is, and so on. Time is a rubbery thing.
In a fantastic interview, neuroscientist David Eagleman shares insight on time and our capacity to know. Related, 7 essential books on understanding time from a cross-disciplinary perspective. (via curiositycounts)
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    Rubbery, Wibbly Wobbly, Timey-Wimey.
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    As a certain Doctor might say, “People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from...
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