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    Booksniffer
    22 сентября 2025

    Would it mean that we always see familiar things to some extent the way they used to be? Are we stuck in the past not out of simple nostalgia or wishful thinking but by a data-processing shortcut in our neural wiring? If what one “saw” was supplied partly from the optic nerves and partly from memory—if what one “perceived” at any given moment was actually a composite of current impressions and stored impressions—it gave new meaning to “living in the past.” The past would thus exercise a peculiar tyranny over the present by supplying us with obsolete data in the guise of sensory experience. (перевод уже есть в цитатах)

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