> My personal subjective estimate is something like to 40 ms
This is fascinating. I'm waiting for the time in my meditation practice when I start to notice it.
Could you (or anyone else who experiences individual moments) go into a bit more detail about what you experience? Do the moments tend to all be from the same sensory modality (e.g. vision), or are they mixed? If you can tell, does any moment combine more than one sensory modality? How often are there moments of thinking (e.g. narration or a visually imagined scenario), or does thinking tend to end the experience? How isolated do the moments feel: are they like isolated snapshots, or is it like a movie running slow where you can tell that there are frames but they partially blend together?
It's been discussed on HN before (it's how I found it a few years ago) and breaks down meditation in a systematic way while relating the phenomena described in Buddhist texts to current psychological principles. This "moments of consciousness model" of the mind is discussed at length and a short answer to you question is yes, different sensory moments are integrated in "binding moments".
Yeah, I own it. "Binding moments" is why I asked that question :-).
I'm partly wondering if peoples' experience matches the book's description, and partly looking for more detail about what the actual experience is like than the book provides.
Would second the recommendation though: it's a great book.
This is fascinating. I'm waiting for the time in my meditation practice when I start to notice it.
Could you (or anyone else who experiences individual moments) go into a bit more detail about what you experience? Do the moments tend to all be from the same sensory modality (e.g. vision), or are they mixed? If you can tell, does any moment combine more than one sensory modality? How often are there moments of thinking (e.g. narration or a visually imagined scenario), or does thinking tend to end the experience? How isolated do the moments feel: are they like isolated snapshots, or is it like a movie running slow where you can tell that there are frames but they partially blend together?