Not necessarily. The brain pattern-matches continuous sensory experiences to something already known, which is discrete. I tend to think about it as rounding-to-nearest. Blood gradually transforming into water before your eyes doesn’t make sense to the mind.
A common experience of this would be seeing a predator in the dark for example, and then realizing it’s a tree branch. The pattern recognized changes instantly, although the view might not change at all.
Not necessarily. The brain pattern-matches continuous sensory experiences to something already known, which is discrete. I tend to think about it as rounding-to-nearest. Blood gradually transforming into water before your eyes doesn’t make sense to the mind.
A common experience of this would be seeing a predator in the dark for example, and then realizing it’s a tree branch. The pattern recognized changes instantly, although the view might not change at all.