{"id":24669,"date":"2016-04-14T13:31:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/our-conscious-perception-of-the-world-feels-like-a-continuous-and-uninterrupted-flow"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:17:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:17:47","slug":"our-conscious-perception-of-the-world-feels-like-a-continuous-and-uninterrupted-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/our-conscious-perception-of-the-world-feels-like-a-continuous-and-uninterrupted-flow","title":{"rendered":"Our conscious perception of the world feels like a continuous and uninterrupted flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/notitle4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But a new study suggests that it\u2019s actually more like the frames of a movie reel running through a projector.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still a lot we don\u2019t know about consciousness and how it arises in the brain. Even though perception\u2014such as vision and hearing\u2014feels smooth and uninterrupted, neuroscientists aren\u2019t entirely sure if it flows continuously like water through a tap or if it\u2019s more like the aforementioned 24-frame-per-second movie reel.<\/p>\n<p><a x-inset=\"hidden\" href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/8-things-we-simply-dont-understand-about-the-human-brai-949442979\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/8-things-we-simply-dont-understand-about-the-human-brai-949442979\">http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/8-things-we-simply-dont-understand-ab\u2026-949442979<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/new-time-slice-theory-suggests-youre-not-as-conscious-a-1770950927\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/new-time-slice-theory-suggests-youre-not-...1770950927<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But a new study suggests that it\u2019s actually more like the frames of a movie reel running through a projector. There\u2019s still a lot we don\u2019t know about consciousness and how it arises in the brain. Even though perception\u2014such as vision and hearing\u2014feels smooth and uninterrupted, neuroscientists aren\u2019t entirely sure if it flows continuously like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50819,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24669\/revisions\/50819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}