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Why U don't see what is right in front of U
The following is a quote from an article that Aaron sent me.
It is amazing how we look at the world so individually, and only perceive what we are programmed to!
This explains how we sometime look right at something, but, literally, never consciously see it!
We definitely are perceiving the world around us according to whatever programming we have allowed to control us.
In the book Flow, Hungarian biologist Mihaly Scikszentmihalyi says that you are constantly being bombarded by approximately 2,000,000 bits of information per second via the input channels of your five senses. If you were to be instantaneously aware of this external input all at onece, you would undoubtedly go insane. Your nervous system is designed to cut this massive amount of information down to manageable sizes or "chunks." Out of 2,000,000 bits of information, you actually process only about 134 bits, or seven chunks, (plus or minus two, which means five to nine chunks). So you only process .000067 percent of all of the information coming in. We have this incredible ability to impair our own vision, so to speak, just to keep us from getting utterly overwhelmed. As psychologist Ulric Neisser put it, "Our mental machinery knows everything that is going on around us but discards most as unimportant before consciousness is reached."
It is amazing how we look at the world so individually, and only perceive what we are programmed to!
This explains how we sometime look right at something, but, literally, never consciously see it!
We definitely are perceiving the world around us according to whatever programming we have allowed to control us.
In the book Flow, Hungarian biologist Mihaly Scikszentmihalyi says that you are constantly being bombarded by approximately 2,000,000 bits of information per second via the input channels of your five senses. If you were to be instantaneously aware of this external input all at onece, you would undoubtedly go insane. Your nervous system is designed to cut this massive amount of information down to manageable sizes or "chunks." Out of 2,000,000 bits of information, you actually process only about 134 bits, or seven chunks, (plus or minus two, which means five to nine chunks). So you only process .000067 percent of all of the information coming in. We have this incredible ability to impair our own vision, so to speak, just to keep us from getting utterly overwhelmed. As psychologist Ulric Neisser put it, "Our mental machinery knows everything that is going on around us but discards most as unimportant before consciousness is reached."
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