Class Comment Sparked some thought

Wednesday's class a comment was made about how we have a delayed time for all our senses. Seeing, hearing, tasting, touch, and smell are not processed instantaneously, and in many cases the brain predicts and fills in the blanks of our senses. This raises the question of how often does our brain fill in the blanks with the wrong thing. We can see this when we look at those mind tricks, like the two faces facing each other, or is it a vase? This proves that our sight can be deceptive and same with our hearing, like when we hear a person say one thing when they said something completely different. I am sure this is the case for the other senses too. I wonder how the world would be different, or even if it would, if there was no delay or need to fill in the brains, would this mean no mind tricks? So many questions about how the mind works and how that relates to this class.

With "The Ticket that Exploded" I find my mind doing this as I am reading, filling in the blanks that the cut ups make in the book, my mind tries to make them make sense, then it realizes that these things actually don't work together. My mind was not able to make the book make sense, I'm completely lost as to what the point of this book is or any cut up is. To make new works of literature out of previous literature, just does not make sense to me. Am I missing something, is my mind not doing it's job of filling in the blanks?

The way we perceive and interpret the world through our mind, I believe is different for everyone. I find that in this class my mind does not interpret the material we cover in nearly the same way others do. My mind is not able to make the connection between the material from the books we read and the things we discuss in class. I'm a bit lost in this class to be honest, I'm not even sure what the focus of this class is. Well this post went in a direction I did not mean for it to go in. Anyway those are my thoughts on this weeks class on Nanotexts. Hopefully next week will be more clear.