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Old 10th June 2011, 11:18 AM   #408
slingblade
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Originally Posted by Kopji View Post
I have no idea what this could possibly mean.
At any given moment in time, there are hundreds, thousands, possibly millions of things going on around you, providing sensory stimulation.

A certain number of people can, with little or no conscious thought, ignore much of it. A certain, and probably much smaller, number of people cannot ignore much of it, without a strong effort, or perhaps not at all.

For them, a constant stream of largely useless information is coming at them all the time, impinging on their awareness. They have fewer or no "distraction filters."

We know the human brain tries to make patterns out of, to make sense of, the data it receives. If you were one who received a copious amount of data, the mind could get pretty creative in making sense out of it, forming what seem to be pretty creative ideas.

At least, that's how I interpret that.
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