How We Perceive Time | Sean Carroll

Are you the type of person that wonders “Why am I always late?“ Of course, we can’t come up with a specific answer, but we can study how our brains and bodies measure the passage of time and how we perceive that passage. In this video, Sean Carroll discusses the way humans perceive time, which varies greatly from the steady ticking of a clock. By the way, did you know that even though we think we perceive the present moment, we actually live 80 milliseconds in the past? This video is episode 15 from the series “Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time“, Presented by Sean Carroll. Learn more about mind-bending topics at 0:00 Biological Networks for Different Organisms 4:53 Different Cultural Approaches to Time 8:13 Quantifying Cultural Perceptions of Time 10:43 How the Brain Measures Time 15:09 Brain Pulses and Temporal Perception 17:40 Sensory Input and Focus 18:54 Formation of New Memories 24:42 Does the “Present&q