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Do Our Brains Create The Illusion Of Time Passing?
You know how sometimes you watch a wheel spin and parts of it appear to rotate backwards? And how frightening events can seem to happen in slow motion? It turns out that humans don't perceive things continuously, but rather in a series (or several concurrent series) of snapshots, as happens with movies. New Scientist 10/21/09
Posted October 22, 2009 10:07 PM





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