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> So what are you saying, that our perception of the world is what our brain
> makes of what our senses detect and send to it? That we live in our minds?

Yes, The concepts we use to describe our perception - sounds, colors,
smells, etc - don't have an objective reality. That's what Roger Skoff
was discussing.

> Now tell me something I don't already know.

I already referred to the latency inherent in our hearing. Sight is much
worse, with a processing time of up to 500ms. In effect, we are all living
half a second in the past, so even the concept of "now" is subjective.
What fascinates me is that despite the different latencies involved in
hearing, touch, and vision, when we hit, say, a drum with a hand, we see,
hear, and feel the event as instantaneous.

John Atkinson
Technical Editor, Stereophile


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