In his book, The New Science of Consciousness, Paul Nunez considers the situation in which a small child runs out in front of the car you are driving. Your unconscious mind would slam on the brakes of the car as a reflex action, and this can be performed in 150 milliseconds — which is much too fast for the conscious mind to reason about the situation (imagine the mental dialogue: "Should I start to brake?" — far too much time wasted). In fact, conscious awareness of the child does not emerge until a full half-a-second (500 milliseconds). Your conscious mind is not aware of any delay — it is as
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