The Eye Saccades to Recognize New Things

The neocortex acts democratically through different groups of voting neurons, any of whom only hold a very small piece of any given puzzle. As our eyes saccade from position A to B to C, there are enough common voting neurons between A and B and C that they're all still voting that they're seeing the same place. This democratic group of voting neurons creates a reference frame through which we can understand something as stable. Even though certain parts of that image shift around, we could recognize stability in it because a majority of the neurons are still voting that it's the same thing.