Chapter 5. Does Blink = Bias?
Stare at these words for a moment.
Did you read THE CAT? Most people do. Now look again. Notice that the symbols for H and A are not actually letters—they're identical, nonspecific symbols. You probably didn't notice this at first glance. Your brain filled in the information you needed, using pattern recognition based on past experiences. This is an inherent part of being human. At one time, this pattern recognition was a survival mechanism: Red mushrooms make you sick. Red mushrooms make you sick again. Stop eating red mushrooms. In the starkest Darwinian system of natural selection, you either figured it out ...
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