(February 7, 2015 at 1:47 am)bennyboy Wrote:(February 7, 2015 at 12:05 am)Rhythm Wrote: Shouldn't take you more than a few seconds...you know that your eyes can't actually -see- everything in your field of view...right?Yes, I know a few facts about vision and sound. I know that people can visually track about 7 objects, +/- 2 depending on individual abilities, and that short-term memory for sound is about 5-9 seconds.
But the question is whether the conscious mind, i.e. the self, can be fully aware of more than one single object. So let's say I'm tracking 7 objects. Can I actually consciously see them all, or is it just that the unconsious "buffer" tracks 7, and I quickly think about each one for a few milliseconds at a time?
You have a blind area in each eye. There is an area in your field of view from which you have no information - you literally cannot see it.
Your mind fools you into seeing a continuous image.
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