Why should the story of Flight 370 grip us so? This mystery seems almost designed to arouse some fundamental parts of our brain. One of our most essential tasks is to solve the enigma of the outside world, and this starts with our basic sensory perceptions. Our conscious minds experience reality as a seamlessly spooling movie in HD and surround sound. But our brain is fooling us. It turns out the very act of perception "is more like puzzle-solving than most people realize,party paper straws" writes neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran in The Tell-Tale Brain. "When you look at a simple visual scene, your brain is constantly resolving ambiguities, testing hypotheses,Isuzu Auto Parts searching for patterns, comparing current information with memories and expectations."
Since our brain is in the business of solving the puzzle of reality, no wonder we are so gripped when reality presents us with such a maddening puzzle. Even if the debris in the Indian Ocean is proven to be from the missing plane, we still haven't solved the mystery of what happened. The few clues leave us endlessly speculating about what happened to the plane; in the same way, our brains must use the necessarily limited data our senses perceive and apply deductive skills to constantly come up with a functionally plausible version of reality.The study of illusions gives us a glimpse at the trickery our brain uses to create, below our conscious awareness, our continuous sense of the world. Our brain is a kind of detective for our conscious mind.But it's the specific nature of the disappearance of Flight 370 that pings some of our most basic cognitive drives. In their book The Scientist in the Crib, Alison Gopnik, Andrew Meltzoff, and Patricia Kuhl write, "Babies become interested in,nike shox shoes almost obsessed with, hiding-and-finding games when they are about a year old. There is the timeless appeal of peekaboo.canada goose jacket women..Lululemon Women's Pants babies also spontaneously undertake solo investigations of the mysterious Case of the Disappearing Object."
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