The Brain and Behavior

On the serendip site I played 4 games, like we were supposed to. I played Hofstadter's Road Sign, Seeing More Than Your Eye Does, The Game of Life, and Prisoners' Dilemma. However, the only one I really understood was 'Seeing More Than Your Eye Does'. Maybe this is because the experiment gave me hard evidence that it was right, where as with the others you had to figure out the objective yourself. I also kind of enjoyed playing the 'Prisoners' Dilemma' one, but although I used a strategy while playing it, I didn't get the point and how it related to psychology.

I was suprised to learn that we have quite a large blind spot in our eyes. Drivers Ed teachers teach us about 'checking your blindspot' but that blind spot is different, it is created between your eyes and your mirrors. This blind spot is real, but we never notice it because our minds fill in what we are missing. It really makes me wonder about all the other crazy things our brains do without us knowing.

I don't know how this can be applied to everyday life. Because our minds do fill in what we don't see, we don't really miss anything at all most of the time. And if I have been missing things because of my blindspot, I've been missing them my entire life and I don't think it's a big deal. In the same respect it doesn't change the way I think about the world.