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sheerun t1_ituck5o wrote

Reply to comment by clockercountwise333 in Our Conscious Experience of the World Is But a Memory, Says New Theory by Shelfrock77

Interestingly this buffer may not last half a second, but minutes, days, weeks, months, and years. This is: we perceive and act on world by using all of our past memory. Both are obvious things, but surprise is that they are very tightly connected. Catching a fly is not much different than deciding on very long term actions, decisions that require huge amount of past memory, instead of 1 second of it

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metatronoplus t1_itwen2h wrote

Your catching a fly reference reminds me of something I figured out that helps me when trying to catch flies before they take off (or change directions mid flight). I don't try to predict which direction the fly is going to move in, instead I try to remember which way it goes, before I move my hand.

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clockercountwise333 t1_itxu0f1 wrote

Indeed, it's quite complicated :) While the fly can react faster, we can react, slower, ...but potentially many moves ahead of it. I do not think of where the fly is going to go in one move, rather something more like the center point of where it could go in many moves. Their ability to move swiftly is higher, our ability to calculate complexity is higher. Amusingly, we are often evenly matched. Best not to seek each others demise if possible. --Mr. Miyagi

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