So how does the the human brain ignore the second the?
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Superfluous information. Your conscious mind has what it came for and discards the rest. Think if it as data compression.
Your typical mp3 song sounds indistinguishable from lossless wave yet it’s a tenth of the size because all those high sounds you can’t hear anyways gets discarded.
Mostly these shortcuts are very useful to us but it can be a vulnerability to be exploited.
Source: A whole lotta thinking about it.
Brains are lazy. They are quick to guess, and they “check” the guess as lazily as possible.
More accurately; brains need to be as fast as possible while using as little energy as possible, so we can out-compete everything else and not get killed – same as all life. That’s what makes you successful; use the minimum resources to get what you need. Which is why life takes short-cuts – as long as they work more often than not…
It applies to all levels of things; from your example, to people more readily believing things they already know more than anything new to them – regardless of reality.
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What we ‘see’ isn’t what’s actually there. It’s the same as how we have a big blind spot in the center of our field of vision and our brain fills in the details.
Our eyes detect light and send signals to our brain. Our brain interprets those signals and builds a model of the world that isn’t necessarily accurate, but is usually good enough for us to function.
Things like this show that the model built isn’t necessarily accurate, but that details will be filled in by our brain based on surrounding detail.
Another one is that I can type words incorrectly and as long as the first and last letters are present a quick raed show that your brain will fill in the detials and ‘show’ you the correct word.
Your brain is very efficient (lazy). It can ignore redundancies unless you focus on them. A neat experiment to do ( but can be difficult) is if you stare at one point for a good amount of time, and I mean stare don’t move your eyes even a bit, you’ll notice it starts to disappear. Your brain is saying this is not new input so I will ignore it. Its why your eyes are constantly doing micro movements you may not notice and why when look from one thing to another quickly you don’t see a blur but instead feels like your vision teleported.
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Your brain doesn’t take in information. It takes in patterns on information.
I dotn haev to be detialed in my tpying for you to now wat I’m sayin.
You can read what I just wrote. Just like you can understand the gist of a sentence with two thes.
You get the pattern, and then you can disregruard.
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