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And yet take a careful look at what happens when you clap your hands in front of you. Try it. Everything seems synchronized. How can that be, given that sound is processed more quickly? What it means is that your perception of reality is the end result of fancy editing tricks: the brain hides the difference in arrival times. How? What it serves up as reality is actually a delayed version. Your brain collects up all the information from the senses before it decides upon a story of what happens.
The Brain: The Story of You
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