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[Pandarsenic]

Willfor: If he had, I'd have been forced to link him to http://www.cracked.com/funny-3809-internet-argument-techniques/

Cheddarius: Never you mind. ;_;

[Muz]

Correcting someone's grammar/spelling has to be up there with bad argument techniques. Except that it's not funny.

[Little]

Willfor: If he had, I'd have been forced to link him to http://www.cracked.com/funny-3809-internet-argument-techniques

Damn it, I just spent an hour reading Cracked.

[Realmfighter]

Don't you mean, "Awesome, i just spent an hour reading Cracked!)?

[Sysice]

Only an hour? Lucky.

[Nilocy]

Erm, our eyes run at about 30-40 FPS. Most TVs have a refresh rate of about 24. Below that we start noticing it, and above that we start not caring.

And deje vu is just one image from one of your eyes being recieved by your brain slightly slower than the other.

[Cheddarius]

And deje vu is just one image from one of your eyes being recieved by your brain slightly slower than the other.

where did you get this information

[Earthquake Damage]

Erm, our eyes run at about 30-40 FPS.

Actually, no.  The eye has no framerate.  Your ability to tell the difference between a refresh rate of X vs Y depends on the contrast and lighting, though you'll pretty much always see motion as jerky below 15-20 FPS.  There's also a bit of variation between individuals.  IIRC the upper limit to notice pretty much any difference at all, using fairly extreme conditions, is around 100 +/- 20.  I can't remember the exact number, unfortunately.

Side note:  Films (and presumably prerecorded TV broadcasts) usually feature motion blur to smooth things out visually.  Ever pause a movie during an action scene?  It's pretty obvious then.  I don't know how much live TV does this.  HD TV probably changes the framerate so the image is clearer even with motion blur.

[LegoLord]

And deje vu is just one image from one of your eyes being recieved by your brain slightly slower than the other.

where did you get this information

I don't know, but it makes sense.  The left and right portions of the brain control the half of the body on the side opposite them.  The two halves process incoming information in different ways (left=sequential and language problems, right=spatial problems), and are connected by something called corpus callosum, which allows the two halves to communicate information.  If said connector is being sluggish, I suppose it could create the illusion that you are seeing something twice in quick succession.

There have been a lot of interesting experiments concerning the corpus callosum, and you'd be surprised at just how well people can get on without it.  I first heard about it in a drawing book (Drawing With the Right Side of the Brain - Betty Edwards).

It's actually a bit spooky, too.  If you have two separate parts of your brain that can think independently of the other, does that mean there are two of you in one head?

[Cheddarius]

Regardless, I require sauce.

[LegoLord]

Evidently no one has thought of a connection between deja vu and the corpus callosum before, to say nothing of it actually being tested, as a quick search of both terms turns up nada that would confirm that hypothesis.

[Cheddarius]

That would suggest that Nilocy made that up, then, or learned it from a professor or something.

[dragnar]

What's VN?

You are not allowed to ask. All I know is that it was closed down for being a crime against nature,was infested with penguins, and contained a mobile battle-fortress-thread, that lay siege to the forums.

It's actually a bit spooky, too.  If you have two separate parts of your brain that can think independently of the other, does that mean there are two of you in one head?

I believe the difference between the two halves of the brain are vastly overstated, while they do process different things, the reaction between them is not so simple as "each side controls half of your body". If that were true being left or right-handed would be a significant difference, since you would be writing with a hand that "thinks" differently from the other.

[LegoLord]

And yet a man who's left eye sees a spoon and right eye sees a fork will say he saw only a fork if his corpus callosum is severed.  He'll also shake his head in confusion due to what the left eye saw, but that's not the point.

[dragnar]

I didn't mean that there is no correlation between the halves of your brain and the halves of your body, I simply meant that the interaction between the two is much more complex than just that. Nothing involving the brain is ever "simple" and at this point we can merely guess as to how it works, examining trends, forming hypothesis, but not actually knowing enough to prove them. One of the largest problems is that the brain is supremely adaptable, and even cutting out (small) sections won't significantly impact it's function, as the remaining parts adapt to preform the tasks the missing one did.