What if, what you see, is actually 15 seconds in the past? That car you saw drive by a second ago, might actually already be 3 blocks away. Kind of blows your mind, right? That’s kind of the idea behind a new theory from researchers at a couple of Universities. They call it Serial Dependence. And though it’s not like everything we see is already in our past, some of it might be. According to the scientific paper they published, it works by our brain comparing what we see at this moment to what’s in our brain from 15 seconds ago and a lot of times it thinks they’re exactly the same. And that somehow makes everything run smooth like a video.
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Here’s a video that shows how your eyes and brain can perceive images and time wrong.