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You cannot perceive anything without your brain processing it. That amount of time is on the scale of 250ms for sight.

Further, the reality you perceive is not True reality, your brain is encoding the information it receives and shows you an evolutionarily successful version of reality.

You can only perceive your surroundings by creating a mental representation of it in your brain. Part of that mechanism involves memory.



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