The Conscious Mind Is Not At The

Visual Cortex Is Fundamentally A Machine Whose Job Is To Generate A Model Of The World.

Scientists Often Talk Of Parsimony (as In "the Simplest Explanation Is Probably Correct," Also Known As Occam's Razor), But We Should Not Get Seduced By The Apparent Elegance Of Argument From Parsimony; This Line Of Reasoning Has Failed In The Past At Least As Many Times As It Has Succeeded.

Constant Reminding Ourselves That We Not See With Our Eyes But With Our Synergetic Eye-brain System Working As A Whole Will Produce Constant Astonishment As We Notice, More And More Often, How Much Of Our Perceptions Emerge From Our Preconceptions.

The Brain "fills In" The Missing Information From The Blind Spot. Notice What You See In The Location Of The Dot When It's In Your Blind Spot. When The Dot Disappears, You Do Not Perceive A Hole Of Whiteness Or Blackness In Its Place; Instead Your Brain Invents A Patch Of The Background Pattern. Your Brain, With No Information From That Particular Spot In Visual Space, Fills In With The Patterns Around It. You're Not Perceiving What's Out There. You're Perceiving Whatever Your Brain Tells You.

None Of The Individual Metal Hunks Of An Airplane Have The Property Of flight, But When They Are Attached Together In The Right Way, The Result Takes To The Air. A Thin Metal Bar Won't Do You Much Good If You're Trying To Control A Jaguar, But Several Of Them In Parallel Have The Property Of Containment. The Concept Of Emergent Properties Means That Something New Can Be Introduced That Is Not Inherent In Any Of The Parts.