![]() ![]() We think we’re perceiving the world directly and immediately, but everything we experience is this carefully edited, tape-delayed reconstruction. Your brain waits for the slowest bit of stimulus to be processed, then reorders the neural inputs correctly, and lets you experience them together, as a simultaneous event-about half a second after what actually happened. The visual and auditory information arrive at your eyes and ears at different speeds, and then are processed by your brain at different speeds. “Just what your brain does to interpret a simple stimulus like that is incredible. Already a memory.” Helena leans forward, snaps her fingers. The neural impulses from your taste buds and your ears get transmitted to your brain, which processes them and dumps them into working memory-so by the time you know you’re experiencing something, it’s already in the past. You think you’re tasting this wine, hearing the words I’m saying, in the present, but there’s no such thing. But in actuality, it’s the filter between us and reality. A fantastic read.' -Andy Weir, 1 New York Times bestselling author of THE MARTIAN 'Blake Crouch has invented his own brand of page-turner-fearlessly genre-bending, consistently surprising, and. ![]() ![]() ![]() Physically speaking, a memory is nothing but a specific combination of neurons firing together-a symphony of neural activity. But Blake Crouchs action-packed, brilliantly unique 'Recursion' had me up late and shirking responsibilities until I had devoured the last page. ![]()
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