Pop quiz, hotshot: does the guy on the Monopoly box (standard edition) wear a monocle? Next question: does the Fruit of the Loom logo involve a cornucopia? And finally, does Pikachu have a black-ti…
  • Mr. Upsy
    4•2 years ago

    A lot of them, I feel, can be chalked up to just being things we’d expect; you’d expect a monkey to have a tail, or a rich guy to have a monocle. As disorienting as some of the examples can be, plenty of them can be narrowed down to our minds filling in the blanks. It’s fascinating.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      2•2 years ago

      Yeah, it’s an interesting glimpse into how our memory works where the brain just reconstructs the scene based on some key details. It’s a completely different process from the way we store information in computers.