INSIDE THE SPECIOUS PRESENT

twenty ticks of "now" — one bright, one predicted, the rest fading

Each cell is roughly a 100 ms perceptual tick. Letters flow in from the right as time passes. The dashed teal cell is the brain's prediction filling the 100 ms gap between subjective and objective now; the bright coral cell is the actual sensory data your conscious mind just got. Drag the slider toward 100 ms to feel the rate at which conscious experience actually samples reality.