Why does the brain skip over repeated “the” words in sentences?

Question

For example, in this sentence by the the time you are done reading you will have already skipped over the double “the”.

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Answer 1

a huge part of what you perceive of the world around you isn’t actually what’s happening, it’s what you expect to be happening. there’s way too much information for you to process everything going on around you all the time so you actually just pull in part of the information, then make up the rest based on previous experiences. equally, your memories aren’t of what happened, they’re of what you thought happened.