That is exactly right, Mr. 72, I was reading a book on situational awareness a while back that was talking about this and historian James Burkes points out that...mr.72 wrote:Well I think there's that factor, plus there's also the factor of "seeing" what you expect to see. Happens in movies all the time. If you take a lot of movies, especially those that are 10+ years old, and look at the special effects sequences, if you pause a frame and really look at it you will find that it's woefully incomplete. It's probably missing all kinds of stuff. Your brain fills in the gaps, replaces things with stuff you would expect to see, figures if you see something unexpected, maybe it is an error or unimportant information so your brain kind of tunes it out. This is the reality of human perception.
Some very interesting reading. This is why in situational awareness training we must be made aware of the different kinds of criminal behavior so we can see it before it gets to us and it is too late."We deny because we're built to see what we want to see. It is the brain which sees not the eye. Reality is in the brain before it is experienced, or else the signals we get from the eye would make no sense.
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