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The brain interprets the image on the *retina in the light of all sorts of other
"information" it receives. Perception, in fact, is by no means a simple recording
of the details of the world seen outside. It is a selection of those features with
which we are familiar. What it amounts to is that we do not so much believe
(3)
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but of the (4), which works as a sort of selecting machine. Out of all the
images presented to it it chooses for recognition those that fit most closely with
the world learned by past experience.
(6)
I want to give a few more examples to show how what the brain has learned
0 influences the process we call "seeing things." Seeing, they say, is believing.
But is it? An arrangement can be made in such a
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