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> When I'm reading, my eyes movement scanning the page must be in sync with my perception and reading or the words.

Consciousness is the experience of your eyes being in sync with the reading.

> my hands movement are certainly in real-time sync with what is happening at that very moment in the real world, otherwise I'd have few remaining fingers after cutting a few vegetables.

That is what happened. It just happened in the past relative to when you're experiencing it.

How do you talk to people then? I think all those things happened when they did. But the thing inside your brain that plays back the sound and the sensations of making decisions, those emotional things, is delayed.



That leaves interesting questions for what happens if you (for example) get hit by a car and die.

You won’t get to replay your recollections in time, so depending on what the delay is, you might (from your perspective) just suddenly plop out of existence when crossing a street.

I guess it doesn’t really matter, but it’s interesting to think about.




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