   An Ideal Question to ask a Bunch of Programmers
  How do you think the human brain times events?   ********I am not the Iraqi information minister.RESIST! 
  Multiple threads and lots of CPUs   ------------------------------------------------------------Timothy Barnes | War Charity | 2003.;  A good sense of timing. ;  Mine uses eyes to look at a clock. ;  Well, the Medula is the thing that controls our heartbeat and lungs (which have to be pretty regular usually.)  I''d say that everything else may be connected to it in some way...  It is possible to screw with our perception of time however.  It might be helpful to research the effects of Speed if you''re more interested.  Let me make this clear, I don''t mean any self experimentation!!!  I mean find out what parts of the brain it affects, and how it affects them.  I would think that this would more likely be the domain of neurosurgeons and laboratories though, not programmers.-=Lohrno ;  QueryPerformanceCounter   "THREE FOOT TELESCOPING DEMON PENIS" - Pouya ;  It positions the face of its watch within its viewing frustum   Qui fut tout, et qui ne fut rienInvader''s Realm;  Mine guesses how much time has passed, and then changes the universe to make it so.   __________________________________________ I am Spiderman and I''m hitting things!I will scoop you into oblivion!Radical Racers;  Night and day and the feeling of hunger, tiredness and the basic events of a usual day. I think if you took all that away from us we would never know what time it is.   An ASCII tetris clone... | AsciiRis;quote:Original post by bishop_pass   A good sense of timing.   Congratulations. You just topped Bush with that anser as far as vagueness is concerned.Timing, imo is pretty much habitual and directly related to visual references and guesswork. The sense of timing has evolved in every person independently after birth - for instance most people can most likely time a second with no more than 30-50% error (300-500 milliseconds). Timing an hour without a clock and no visual references will most likely yield an increasing error which goes in a different direction depending on what the person is doing:   negative error   positive error<-------------------1 h------------------>   nothing to dosth. to codeThis goes to show that most activities we do actually take up more time than we think. How the whole thing works neurally, is not something you should ask on these boards, though...A personal example: I had something interesting to do once and had to leave in 10 minutes. 40 minutes late I discovered what the time was and I though I still had 5 minutes to spare.   [edited by - crispy on August 16, 2003 4:48:22 PM]