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When computer programers first worked on A.I., they studies how animals learned to leverage this for machine learning. One of the discoveries was that the brains of frogs enacted an ‘algorithm’ which disallowed them from seeing unmoving objects. Their instinct saw them focusing attention on moving flies. So, even if ten dead flies lay right in front of the frog, it wouldn’t eat them. It wouldn’t even notice them. How many humans operate from world-views that preclude seeing beyond them? How much reality passes unnoticed because of our ‘mental furniture’ and ingrained habits of thinking?
