Patrick Elliott wrote:
> False perception. Before a certain age, almost no one remembers what 
> they did or didn't *perceive*, and we have very clear cognitive studies 
> that specify exactly when people *do* gain those things, as well as the 
> earliest age that you are *likely* to remember things clearly. And, 
> again, such perception is wrong a lot of the time, which is why magic 
> tricks, visual tricks, etc. work **at all**. We learn, by handling the 
> world around us, and experiencing it, what to expect in 99.9% of all 
> cases, so.. you do something that fits in the other 0.1%, and our brains 
> freak and start making things up, because it *can't* tell what is really 
> going on. This is basic child development stuff, sheesh..

Reality throws curve balls sometimes, and graphs of real data are messy. 
  Saying 'almost no one' contradicts 'exactly when'.  Also, unless a 
study covers 100% of the population, you have to account for outliers.

Further, our brains make stuff up quite a bit.  Interpolation to fill in 
gaps in the senses, then the brain shmoozes it all together so we just 
see contiguous patterns.

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Tim Cook
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