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Consciousness is like the CEO of the brain: it leads all of the sub-processes but doesn't necessarily know exactly what they are doing or how they are doing it. Most processes are automatic and only enter our conscious minds when problems occur (or expectations are violated).
— Nov 02, 2011 06:43PM
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"The brain makes time-saving and resource-saving assumptions and tries to see the world only as well as it needs to."
— Oct 25, 2011 08:11PM
Heather
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"At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptors." We finally learn that there really are differences between those two identical colors- just ask her!
— Oct 23, 2011 07:37PM
