Why do flies see in slow motion
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From my limited understanding on the topic, there are 2 reasons.
1. Scale: The smaller you are, the greater the distance between things. This effects your perception of movement. Time doesn’t change, but the way you perceive it does, I think this even works in reverse. A baseball traveling at 100 miles per hour just looks faster than a car traveling at 100 miles an hour. So larger objects appear to move slower at the same speed. No idea if this is relevant or not but on a purely intuitive level you can even see it in a lot of video games. When 2 characters of very different size have equalized speed, the bigger character feels significantly slower.
2. Wiring: Flies and other insects don’t have the kind of complex nervous system and brain hardware we do. Whereas if a human see’s an object moving towards us, we have to process it, determine if it’s a threat, conclude the best course of action (whether blocking or dodging) then send the signal to our bodies to carry it out. Flies are pretty much hardwired with responses, no thinking is actually involved.
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