Simon Singh Demonstrates the Power of Mental Frames

A dramatic and shocking demonstration of how your brain gets fooled to see something that is not there because of your biases, prejudices and expectations.
oxdottirsays...

I've seen this before in another videosift video (totally different video but same words). This was well more than a year ago, but the effect persisted. That is, the first time he played it I heard signing about sad satan and a toolshed.

ravermansays...

A boy stares at the rippling grass of the savanna and sees nothing but grass. Then the hunter shows him what the lion moving through the grass looks like. It adds context of what to look for. From then on the boy can see the pattern of danger that was previously invisible.

Then repeat in evolution for a few hundred thousand years.

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