The useful way to think about vision is not as a recording but as a reconstruction — a best guess assembled from partial data. Here are twelve of the shortcuts…
Try it. Run your fingers along your own ribs, or the sole of your own foot, using exactly the motion that would reduce you to helpless laughter if somebody else…
Ask an adult for their earliest memory and you will usually get something from around the age of three or four: a first day at preschool, the arrival of a…