Given that almost all the information that our senses receive is electromagnetic and therefore not instantaneous, what is the degree of reality in which we live? At the quantum level, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle does not allow us to see what really happens to us. around.
I believe that we perceive integral (averaged) macroscopic phenomena. Other theoretical constructions are models that do not always accurately reflect objective phenomena. Scientific struggle is a struggle of opinions based on experience and subjective generalization.
It's worth considering each sense individually since delays will vary across modalities.
For vision, there are at least 4 synapses (rod-bipolar, bipolar-ganglion, ganglion-genicular, genicular-cortical) across ~10cm of distance (from retina to the occipital cortex). You can assume about 100 m/s velocity.
But flicker-fusion tasks give us an empirical estimate of at least 40ms - a delay between "reality" and our perceptual thresholds.
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