Annaka Harris

I mean, I give in the example in my book, I talk about tennis and the binding of the sights and sounds and felt experience of hitting a tennis ball, which in the world are happening at different times.

Yeah.

the rates it takes, the sound waves and the light waves and the felt sensation to travel to my brain are different, that there are these binding processes that happen

prior to the conscious experience that were essentially delivered to us by the brain.

And so we can get back into this.

I can answer your bigger question first, but I feel like for a lot of people to understand some of the science that already exists,

is shattering some of our intuitions about the role consciousness plays, I think is helpful in terms of being able to be open to thinking about these other ideas.

Yeah.

There is this period of time, and it's...

depending on the situation and the behavior, it can be anywhere from, it's essentially half a second.

There's 200 milliseconds.

I actually don't know, I was going to compare it to the timing of syncing film and sound.

I don't know if you know this data.

You do?

Yeah, like how the timing has to work so that we're conscious, so that our experience is of it happening at the same time.

Sorry, I had no idea.

Am I out of sync right now?

Your brain is constantly making adjustments, and so it can shift for you while you're doing that, which is probably part of the thing that's driving you crazy.

Okay, so I'll start with binding processes, and then I'll just give a couple examples.

So yes, there's this window where your brain is