[time-nuts] On Finding Things

Steve Rooke sar10538 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 7 14:55:56 UTC 2010


What your saying is that it is a form of selective blindness where the
brain filters out an item it does not want to see but if your looking
for something specifically, I wonder why this happens. I have
experienced this many times, I try to find something that I had just a
moment ago and cannot find it until it suddenly appears, as if by
magic, right in front of me and was there all the time.

Steve

On 08/08/2010, Arthur Dent <golgarfrincham at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Brooke Clarke posted this quote, which I really like:
> "Now, a few words on looking for things. When you go looking for
> something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad. Because of
> all the things in the world, you're only looking for one of them. When
> you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very
> good. Because of all the things in the world, you're sure to find some
> of them."
>
> Although not the same, I think that this theory of trying to find things may
> be related to the SEP, or Somebody Else's Problem, that Douglas Adams
> describes in "Life, the Universe and Everything"
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> "An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us
> see,
> because we think that it's somebody else's problem.... The brain just edits
> it out,
> it's like a blind spot. If you look at it directly you won't see it unless
> you know precisely
> what it is. Your only hope is to catch it by surprise out of the corner of
> your eye."
>
> -Arthur Dent
>
>
>
>
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