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May 13, 2007

Now you see it, now you don't

Cybernauts who visit this virtual journal regularly will be familiar with me banging on about the fact that we look but we don’t see. We look and we recognise, but it goes no further. Which means we can usually avoid being run over by a bus or walking into a lamppost, but it’s tricky to draw your best friend's face when you’re looking straight at it.

If you read the next paragraph quickly you’ll see how much we see and how much we recognise.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulacity uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. It deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a word are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

[thanks to Richard at St Christopher]

Posted by john at May 13, 2007 12:02 AM

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Posted by: Jonathan at May 13, 2007 03:37 PM