The Invisible Gorilla
This is such a wonderful example of what we are: inside our skull our brain aggregates inputs from our entire body of sensors. The amount of continuous information is truly massive and beyond digital processing in real-time. So evolution selected for brains that create simplified models with fast comparison for survival including bodily function. (Importantly this modeling is not necessarily isolated in our skull.)
Concentrating, focusing our visual modeling on counting ball passing, results in loss of focus on other modeling that goes on. Besides 'missing' the gorilla most other modeling receives lower priority.
Consider what might those observing would report if other sensors were triggered at the same time: loud bang, a flash in peripheral vision, smell of smoke, ...?
Modeling is always happening as sensory data is continuous and there are processes for priority, decision weighing, involved in models a.k.a. modeling for survival.
We model everything! I believe our modeling function has no need to differentiate abstract models (models of models ie ideas) from objective sensory models (ex sight, sound, touch,...)
As an animal species, it appears our modeling abilities evolved in a non linear increment. My suspicious ( idea modeling 😁) is that evolutionary selection drove a fractal step level increase in abstract modeling ability.
Okay time to model my ass out of bed, make coffee and do chores. Thanks for your indulgence of my ramblings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtKt8YF7dgQ
