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Hey vsauce Michael here and today I've got a brand new episode
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of this Vauce lean back you can click this annotation
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or the link at the top of the description to start it and then you can just lean back
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and the autoplay playlist bring the knowledge right to your brain
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as you already know it doesn't really work on mobile phones yet so we can tell
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you in a better position to lead back
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in the meantime let's get Saccadic
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no not psychotic, saccadic
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referring to what is known as a saccad the quick movements that are eyeballs make me move from one object to the other
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As you may remember from a previous lean back some animals like most birds
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cannot move their eyeballs into the look from one thing to another they have to head really really fast
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and keep the world from being blurry when their bodies new they have to keep
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their heads completely stationary
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but here's the lead things about saccad when our eyes move
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there's a quick blur between one destination and the other
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and that blur is completely incomprehensible to our brain
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so what are visual system does is erase it from our memory
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and instead replace that little fraction of a second that the eye moved
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during with the very next thing we see. This leads to a really amazing allusion
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called the stopped clock allusion you may have noticed this before
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if you've ever been in a room with the clock with the second game like in a classroom
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starting your eyes back and forth waiting for class
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to be out now here is what happens right when you don't your eyes to the clock
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that very first second that very first movement of the second hand
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that happens when your eyes reach it seems longer
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in every other second afterwards look away from the clock
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and then look and that first second was seen to link
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as if time itself is stop the reason for that
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is that you're brain replaces the time it took for your eyes the goal from here
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to the clock with the image of the first thing you saw which with second-hand
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and so that little fraction of a second of time is added
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to link the time it takes second-hand to move what's really mind-blowing about this entire
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fact as it happens all the time all day
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as you look around the world from one point to another that little fraction of a second
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that your eyeball was moving is lost and your brain just replace it with a very next thing
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you see it might just be a tiny tiny mini time
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but over the course of an entire day those little fraction in a second
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add up to almost 40 minutes
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40 minutes of everyday that you're awake are lost
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because of eyeballs move
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and that's always thanks for watching
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so what are you waiting for
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picture to start the leaf back or click the link at the top of this video