#experimenting

Until now, I've been writing about "now" as if it were literally an instant of time, but of course human faculties are not infinitely precise. It is simplistic to suppose that physical events and mental events march along exactly in step, with the stream of "actual moments" in the outside world and the stream of conscious awareness of them perfectly synchronized. The cinema industry depends on the phenomenon that what seems to us a movie is really a succession of still pictures, running at twenty-five [sic] frames per second. We don't notice the joins. Evidently the "now" of our conscious awareness stretches over at least 1/25 of a second. In fact, psychologists are convinced it can last a lot longer than that. Take he familiar "tick-tock" of the clock. Well, the clock doesn't go "tick-tock" at all; it goes "tick-tick," every tick producing the same sound. It's just that our consciousness runs two successive ticks into a singe "tick-tock" experience—but only if the duration between ticks is less than about three seconds. A really bug pendulum clock just goes "tock . . . tock . . . tock," whereas a bedside clock chatters away: "ticktockticktock..." Two to three seconds seems to be the duration over which our minds integrate sense data into a unitary experience, a fact reflected in the structure of human music and poetry. ↗

— Paul Davies

#now #physics #reality #time #time-passing

One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge. ↗

— David Crane

#challenge #concept #experimenting #game #gave

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#comfort #directly #experimenting #false #i

Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#busily #different #entitlement #experimenting #felt

I like experimenting with different color lip glosses and lipsticks and things like that. ↗

— Jordyn Wieber

#different #different color #experimenting #i #like

I'm still experimenting. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#i #still

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#different #different sounds #down #experimenting #great

I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#deprivation #different #experimenting #i #looked

I had a bunch of different hair colors. I was experimenting to see what I liked. It started off brown, then I did red, then I got really, really blonde! ↗

— Leighton Meester

#brown #bunch #colors #did #different

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music. ↗

— Nicki Minaj

#always #been #experimenting #i #music