What Exactly is the Present?
What is the specious present? And how do our brains perceive time? Get a 30-day free trial on Audible: http://bit.ly/AudibleVe More info about this topic: http://wke.lt/w/s/z8TeR.
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At the 1939 world's fair in New York, the exciting new tech was the live television broadcast.Roosevelt became the first president to address the nation live on TVBut for years leading up to this event, engineers have been working on one particular technical problem:How to ensure the audio and video remain perfectly synced during the live broadcast ?Without this, words and lip movements wouldn't match up, which would be annoying and distracting for viewers.So, how did they do it ?Well actually, they didn't,instead they discovered something pretty incredible:We are not very good at discerning whether audio and video are in syncFor example, I intentionally delayed the audio of this entire monolognearly a 1/10th of a secondand did you notice?I'll clap to...
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At the 1939 world's fair in New York, the exciting new tech was the live television broadcast.Roosevelt became the first president to address the nation live on TVBut for years leading up to this event, engineers have been working on one particular technical problem:How to ensure the audio and video remain perfectly synced during the live broadcast ?Without this, words and lip movements wouldn't match up, which would be annoying and distracting for viewers.So, how did they do it ?Well actually, they didn't,instead they discovered something pretty incredible:We are not very good at discerning whether audio and video are in syncFor example, I intentionally delayed the audio of this entire monolognearly a 1/10th of a secondand did you notice?I'll clap to...
