so if your conscious mind had to understand the…
Page 99, so if your conscious mind had to understand the visual world based on the literal interpretations of millions of bites of data, it would freeze like an over text computer. To avoid being overwhelmed, your brain works with far more limited data and uses tricks to fill in the gaps in a manner analogous to what a graphics program might do to sharpen an image.
— from The Mind in the Cockpit · Emotional by Leonard mlodinow