Friday, March 24, 2006

The brain...

...is a pattern recognition system. An evolutionary biogical survival tool that is highly useful.

But.

That being the case, as a pattern recognition system, the brain will sometimes make connections and linkages where none actually exist.

[Which is how optical illusions sometimes work... the brain "fills in" information that's missing.]

So, is what you know real, or a connection made in the absence of information?

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