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What Is the Nature of Consciousness?

The Joy of Why

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How to Count the Number of Passes Among Players Dressed in White Uniforms

Psychologist Dan Simons: We have this impression that we really just see what's out there, especially if we're looking straight at it. He says the experience of change is itself a kind of perception, the brain's best guess about what's going on. Inattentional blindness can be quite amusing to people, especially if they know what was going on and don't get distracted by things like laughter or other distractions. The same thing happens when something in our visual experience again is the easiest context for this,. but it applies to other domains as well.

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