“We operate half a second behind reality.” Lex and Jim! Thank you! This deep conversation was one of the best posts ever!!!,(reply>), Since he is quite philosophical here, I think what he is referring to is that your consciousness gets aware of the brains decision after it is made. You can find interesting info on this and it kinda questions free will.,(reply>), @Joe G lol, robots already showing up to flex!,(reply>), @Jeremiah John Whatever scale you want to assign, we are already slow in comparison," and robotics are only getting faster: <br><br><a href=""http://youtube.com/watch?v=-KxjVlaLBmk&amp;t"">http://youtube.com/watch?v=-KxjVlaLBmk&amp;t</a>",(reply>), @SCWgreg fake mind blow, obviously you can not react to anything literally instantaneously, it's physically impossible, half a second might be a good round number for normal conscious interaction but for say voluntary reaction time sub 200ms is common and I'd assume some processes are even faster than that.,(reply>), Solar Van Life... were reacting to the past. ;)