Please watch the following clip of a detective trying to solve a
murder very attentively to see how aware and perceptive you are:
It is all too easy to miss changes that we were not looking for!
Our mind is adapted to how things were in the past, to our model
of the world. Our mind works based on what has worked in the
past. Because it is impossible and would be way too slow to
reconstruct all of reality from our sensual information, the
brain takes shortcuts (heuristics) based on past experience.
This works so long as our experiential models of realities more
or less accurately reflect the current situation. In
pathological cases like the above staged scene, many of our
assumptions about the world fail, especially since the scene is
geared towards exactly those weaknesses. Deletion, Distortion,
Generalization On top of this we continuously delete, distort
and generalize the information from our senses. - We have to
delete much of the incoming information simply because we don’t
have the attentional bandwidth