No Brain - Negativland

Ed, I’ve got news for you

No Brain

Welcome to two hundred milliseconds

What?

Well, it could be this

Well, it could be that

Well, it could be this

Well, it could be that

What?

A couple of milliseconds

It’s either this or that (no brain)

It’s either this or that (no brain)

It’s either this or that

(It works, it’s all about milliseconds)

It’s either this or that (what)

(Couple of milliseconds)

They just don’t see it

Ed, I’ve got news for you

If you experienced everything when you were crossing a street

You would never get across the street

The world is trillions of times more complicated

You don’t actually see what gets edited out

(Couple of milliseconds)

We have to cut it down to a manageable entity (entity)

A filter bubble

One trillionth of the information that hits your eye

Actually gets transmitted to the brain

(We don’t all see the same Google results)

It’s less than a trillionth of reality that we exist in

Less than a trillionth of reality (that you live in online)

When you perceive something

When your brain is doing this

You have a tenth of a second before it becomes conscious

When your brain is doing that

And it will change in that tenth of a second

To fit what you already know (no brain)

It’s not denying it

It’s like it’s not even a fact (what)

The rich see already a different internet than the poor

It’s our users who control what they see

The facts will be ignored or attacked

They just don’t see it

We have to do it

It’s an illusion (it's either this or that)

But it’s an illusion that we’ve all constructed

So that we can live

Y’know you sort of step two steps to the side

To get a better view on something

To get a better angle

And the world turns to meet your gaze