The vagaries of consciousness? Or quantum mechanical effects?

From Boingboing, this article discusses a neat trick of being able to slow down or stop the second hand outright. The question is: is this just a glitch in the core visual systems of the human brain? Or is this quantum uncertainty acting in a macroscopic context?

Coincidentally, I am reading Chronos by Etienne Klein (who is, however, no relation to Felix Klein, the inventor of the Klein Bottle, nor to Oscar Klein, the co-creator of Kaluza-Klein Theory.) which discusses this very thing—whether our experiences of time—subjective time—are merely artifacts of our cognitive hardware, or whether the weirdness we sense is really our interaction with quantum mechanics and in fact reflects physical time. Is our role as the quantum mechanical Observer what creates time? Are we the actual “engines of time”? Would time not exist if there were no Observer? (Although, I suppose, nothing would exist if there were no Observer.)

With these thoughts at hand, I thought I would add a snippet of lyrics from the Police: