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We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. this version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. i think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. everybody's got some blind spot.
God is back and europe as a whole still doesn't get it. it is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.
There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. people who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.
Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if only it weren't blind, and then your brain fills in the scene with this information. that's right, it invents things, creates things, makes stuff up! it doesn't consult you about this, doesn't seek your approval. it just makes its best guess about the nature of the missing information and proceeds to fill in the scene.
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.
We know it (meat eating) is indisputably the number one cause of global warming. so what does it mean exactly to be an environmentalist on a daily basis if you are not thinking about the number one cause of global warming or one of the top two or three causes of all other environmental problems? does it mean you are necessarily someone who doesn't care about the environment? obviously not, but it might mean you have a blind spot for something big.
The brain "fills in" the missing information from the blind spot. notice what you see in the location of the dot when it's in your blind spot. when the dot disappears, you do not perceive a hole of whiteness or blackness in its place; instead your brain invents a patch of the background pattern. your brain, with no information from that particular spot in visual space, fills in with the patterns around it. you're not perceiving what's out there. you're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
We all have a blind spot and it's shaped exactly like us.
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