The Brain and the Now
I’ve been a board member at Long Now for several years, and I’m absolutely taken with the organization’s emphasis on long term thinking (e.g., a 10,000 year timescale). In this talk, I discussed my ongoing studies of the brain’s perception of very brief scales of time.
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