"zeontestpilot" (zeontestpilot)
11/17/2015 at 08:00 • Filed to: Science
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"zeontestpilot" (zeontestpilot)
11/17/2015 at 08:00 • Filed to: Science | 6
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So I found this fascinating
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that says most smaller animals experience time differently then humans. In the article, it said “...time perception depends on how rapidly an animal nervous system processes sensory information.”
If a light flashes too quickly, all we can see is a steady light; it’s too quick for us to actually perceive. Humans can see around 60 hz (aka hertz, or the unit of frequency). Dogs can perceive up to 80 hz. So to dogs, humans seem to move in slow motion. And it’s the same for many small animals; except cats, who are curiously below humans at 55 hz. That might explain how I can sneak up on mine.
Even more curious, flies are at 250 hz! Which makes sense now on why I can never kill them. To them, I’m moving in slow-mo, plenty of time to respond.
For each creature, a minute is still the same length of time (if we’re at the same sea level that is), but smaller animals perceive more info in that same moment than we do. I just find that really fascinating.
And if I didn’t explain it properly, sorry! I did the best I could. Nature is amazing at how it operates, :).
Berang
> zeontestpilot
11/17/2015 at 08:08 |
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So much for cat-like reflexes huh?
Wobbles the Mind
> zeontestpilot
11/17/2015 at 08:15 |
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No wonder pigeons don’t give a fuck, everything is in slow motion. I wonder if hummingbirds see faster than they flap?
PanchoVilleneuve ST
> zeontestpilot
11/17/2015 at 08:22 |
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Cat like BRO!
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zeontestpilot
> Berang
11/17/2015 at 08:33 |
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I was thinking about that too. This is based on vision only, like seeing more frames per second. It doesn't consider the other senses, like smell or sound.
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zeontestpilot
> Wobbles the Mind
11/17/2015 at 08:34 |
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Hmmm, curious idea. I'm wondering about the hummingbird as well now. I'd imagine it would though, since it has to process a lot of info when it flies quickly.
scoob
> zeontestpilot
11/17/2015 at 08:49 |
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So... can we overclock?
jariten1781
> zeontestpilot
11/17/2015 at 08:59 |
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I’m not sure how much stock I’d put in it. I see a very pronounced flicker at 60Hz...clears at about 80 Hz(which was straight up headache inducing in the days of CRTs.) That would mean I
should
see things in slow motion compared to the median adult. My performance in sports, FPSs, and anything else that requires precise quick reaction times would straight up tell you that’s not true.
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zeontestpilot
> jariten1781
11/17/2015 at 09:12 |
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Well each person is different. I once knew I girl who could hear dog whistles, she hated it. It could also be that you already do perceive more than other people, but don’t realize it, because you’re already use to it. For example, what’s red to me isn’t necessarily the same red for you. We call that color red, but to someone else it might look blue (not sure if you’ve heard that statement before).
Still, the human body is pretty neat, :).
Brickman
> zeontestpilot
11/17/2015 at 09:18 |
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So it’s like overclocking your PC.
Time to overclock myself into a fly :D
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zeontestpilot
> scoob
11/17/2015 at 09:21 |
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I don't see why we can't.
atomicalex
> zeontestpilot
11/17/2015 at 09:29 |
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Interesting... Humans also have two categories of time - linear time, which is what the article discusses, and event-based time. Lots of ASD people have event-based time, which does not really line up at all with linear time. It’s how friday becomes the yesterday of monday at work, while at home sundays is the yesterday of monday.
The nervous system speed thing also explains why times slows down in an emergency - we up our processing rate - and why we miss important things (“I didn’t see him” before a crash) - we are running at normal rate.
Very cool!
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jariten1781
> zeontestpilot
11/17/2015 at 09:30 |
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Yep yep, I can also hear super high pitched sounds, as can both of my brothers and my male cousins. I actually had to threaten to take a neighbor to court because they were using one of those ultrasonic deer repeller things and it sounded like a very high pitched siren was going off all the time and made it impossible to sleep. I had to switch dentists because they installed ultrasonic insect repellers and made the whole place have a consistent loud squealing sound...dentist offices are already uncomfortable enough without that.
I’m just saying I wouldn’t correlate being able to process external stimuli at a higher frequency with experiencing time significantly different. That would imply I see things in ‘slow motion’ compared to other folks which should mean that I’d have better recognition and reaction times. I definitely do not...I’m not great at first person shooters and am patently awful at reaction sports like tennis or baseball.
That’s not to say that animals perceive time exactly the same as humans. I’d say it’s pretty clear that fast moving insects like mosquitos must both process and react in a different time frame than humans or they’d be trivially easy to squash. I just don’t think that perceptivity to frequency is a great measure of it.
Of course it’s all anecdotal, so YMMV.
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zeontestpilot
> Brickman
11/17/2015 at 10:01 |
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Fly-man will be your super hero name.
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zeontestpilot
> atomicalex
11/17/2015 at 10:06 |
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Plus, time is affected by gravity. I’m not exactly sure ‘how’ (still researching) but atomic clocks act differently the farther they are from earth. Which brings up a unique idea, how time is perceived and what actually happens. A minute feels like a minute, but if time is still distorted in any way, you lose or gain time, but it still feels like a minute.
Also, technically, time would be different on different planets.
Science is cool!
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zeontestpilot
> jariten1781
11/17/2015 at 10:19 |
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Maybe, but I think how we perceive something, and our reaction to it, are separate things.
I for one, think I’m a super taster. Super tasters have a strong sense of taste, sometimes overwhelmingly. I grew up a very picky eater, because most foods were too much in the taste department.
I can taste when something is diet, I hate it. When I drink a diet pop/soda, that diet taste is extremely powerful to me, it drives me crazy. I have never understood it when people say they can’t taste the difference. To me, the difference is so obvious it's like drinking a cola compared to a lemon-lime drink.
Rico
> zeontestpilot
11/17/2015 at 15:38 |
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Linear time is different on planets due to their distance from the sun and how long it not only takes them to revolve on their axis but also revolve around the sun. That’s how come a day on Venus is actually 116 Earth days long.
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zeontestpilot
> Rico
11/17/2015 at 18:21 |
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Yep. And curiously, Mercury’s day is longer than its year.