Here are two fascinating articles on perception.
Perhaps only ten percent of what we see is perceived, and the rest is added by the brain.
Jim
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Get Out of Your Own Way by Robert Lee Hotz
Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers now can detect our intentions and predict our choices before we are aware of them ourselves.
The brain, they have found, appears to make up its mind 10 seconds before we become conscious of a decision -- an eternity at the speed of thought.
Robert Lee Hotz
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A new scientific understanding of perception has emerged in the past few decades, and it has overturned classical, centuries-long beliefs about how our brains work—though it has apparently not penetrated the medical world yet.
Atul Gawande
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