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The things everyone should know about time.
关于时间,每个人都该知道的事。
You live in the past.
我们活在过去。
About 80 milliseconds in the past, to be precise.
准确地说,是活在80毫秒前。
Use one hand to touch your nose, and the other to touch one of your feet, at exactly the same time. You will experience them as simultaneous acts.
用一只手碰碰你的鼻子,同时用另一只手去碰你的脚,你会觉得这两件事是同时发生的。
But that’s mysterious—clearly it takes more time for the signal to travel up your nerves from your feet to your brain than from your nose. T
但这正是不可思议之处——显然,信号从你的脚传到你的大脑应该要比从你的鼻子到大脑花费更多时间。
The reconciliation is simple: our conscious experience takes time to assemble, and your brain waits for all the relevant input before it experiences the“now.”
不过这一点很容易弄明白:我们的意识需要时间来收集信息,而大脑要等收集到所有相关信息之后才能体验到“现在”。
Experiments have shown that the lag between things happening and us experiencing them is about 80 milliseconds.
实验表明,从事件真正发生到我们的大脑体验到事件的发生,中间大约有80毫秒的时滞。
【知识点讲解】
at the same time 同时; 一起; 但是; 然而
例句:
"We're all talking at the same time." — "Yeah. Sorry."
“我们俩在同时讲话。”——“噢,抱歉。”
Dividing his command, Morgan assailed both strongholds at the same time.
摩根派遣部队同时袭击了两个据点。
The cookery course was serious and hedonistic at the same time.
烹饪课既是一件严肃的事又是一种享受。
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