Blinking

[pocaracas]

Maybe they forgot the dot in the printed book?

Maybe. But then Dennett just didn't think about it or do the math when he quoted it--kind of disheartening. Not to mention they both use it to discuss various adaptionist reasons why humans may have evolved this way and it kind of renders their subsequent points about it moot. Read the last paragraph in the e-book link I provided and 1st or 2nd on the next page. You'll see what I mean.

I see...
Yes it may have been a typo in the quoted book, and Dennet just went with it... although most of his argument seems to rest upon the actual 50ms blink duration, which disregards the 5% detail.

Why are you so hung on a somewhat non important mathematical detail?

[Mudhammam]

I see...
Yes it may have been a typo in the quoted book, and Dennet just went with it... although most of his argument seems to rest upon the actual 50ms blink duration, which disregards the 5% detail.

Why are you so hung on a somewhat non important mathematical detail?

I don't know. Probably because it led me down the rabbit hole of math and I couldn't come to the same conclusion, which frustrated me. But you're right, it is pretty trivial.