Again the brain focusses upon a very small part of the 'a priori' world when an explosive device threatens. When this memory later is filled in with and coordinated with the current and prior conditions of the a priori world it seems as though the timespan of the dangerous event must have been longer. - because our a priori world later fills in - at leisure -data which was not available to us whilst we were focussing upon the bomb exploding.
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