This is a great graphic by Simon Thorpe describing human visual cortex pipeline and latencies involved. twitter 
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I tell this story to my aikido students at least once per semester. Vision passes through the emotional centers of the brain long before we can produce names of the things we see. Feeling begins before thought and shapes what we think. blog
Architecturally, we are emotional creatures first and only occasionally have fits of reason. All human perception gets processed first in the limbic system. The emotional center of our brain colors everything we perceive. blog
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