IT IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS
Some time ago, this photo was chosen by the prestigious magazine as one of the best photos of the year, but the subjects of the photo are not what they seem. They are not donkeys!
Those black figures are the shadows of a number of zebras . If you zoom in, you can see it. The zebras are sitting just below the shadow. They are crossing the desert of the United Arab Emirates. It reminds us how much the brain reasons through simplification and association.
In some respects, the brain is not interested in reality, but rather in the interpretation of reality.
The brain uses a familiar pattern, stored in memory, to find meaning in the scene before it. In psychology, this is confirmation bias,
according to which I interpret reality based on the idea I have of reality.
This phenomenon leads us to prefer information that confirms our biases, hypotheses, and personal beliefs, regardless of the truthfulness of that information.
People are compelled to understand information quickly and with little effort. It takes time and effort to discover new explanations or beliefs