Audio analysis veteran backs claim that conscious continuity is an illusion, flipping every 60ms
eigenhector · x · 2026-10-19
A viral post claims the continuity of consciousness is an illusion: we flip between conscious and unconscious states roughly every 60 milliseconds, and backward speech can be recognized when played in 20ms slices (with audio demos). Replying, eigenhector adds professional context: in audio analysis, computing windowed mel-frequency cepstral coefficients over tiny windows — treating sound as bags of frequency words — already works for machine audio perception, suggesting discrete short-window processing may underlie perception too.
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