Perceiving the Past

The Time Lag of Our Senses

Ulf Wolf
Wolf Musings
Published in
7 min readMay 29, 2022

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Don’t forget:
our senses are
interpretations
of neural events

Sight, sound, touch, taste, smell, even memory — are all nothing but our interpretations of neural events.

Sight, for example, doesn’t reach us instantly as sight. Once light finds the eye…

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Ulf Wolf
Wolf Musings

Raised by trolls in northern Sweden, now settled on the California coast a stone’s throw south of the Oregon border. Here I meditate and write. Wolfstuff.com.