i think this happens cause of the way we catagorise unknowns, as humans. we sort of...well we catagorise, i already said it. the older we get the mroe specific a catagory. that's why a little kid might not distinguish between a kitten and a dog and a rabbit, and call all of them 'bunny' or something. to them they all fit into the same catagory.
but once our brains construct that catagory, we have a frame of reference for whatever it is that we can always return back to. i mean thinka bout how many times in your life you'd learn a new word, and then suddenly that new word was everywhere. it's because before, since you could already read, you sort of read 'around' that word in sentances and grasped the context and thus the meaning. but once you got the meaning, suddenly...there the word was.
we filter that which lacks any meaning at all, because filtering is sort of the brain's natural defense against overload. it's why when you hear a family speaking a language you don't understand, you won't remember the way it sounded. your brain just filtered. but once you start learning the langauge, you build yourself a catagory for it, and slowly stop filtering...
aaaaaand there was more i was going to say but i gotta jet cause i gotta get ready for student teaching stuff BUT I HOPE THIS CLEARS IT UP SOME
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Date: 2009-04-08 08:02 pm (UTC)i think this happens cause of the way we catagorise unknowns, as humans. we sort of...well we catagorise, i already said it. the older we get the mroe specific a catagory. that's why a little kid might not distinguish between a kitten and a dog and a rabbit, and call all of them 'bunny' or something. to them they all fit into the same catagory.
but once our brains construct that catagory, we have a frame of reference for whatever it is that we can always return back to. i mean thinka bout how many times in your life you'd learn a new word, and then suddenly that new word was everywhere. it's because before, since you could already read, you sort of read 'around' that word in sentances and grasped the context and thus the meaning. but once you got the meaning, suddenly...there the word was.
we filter that which lacks any meaning at all, because filtering is sort of the brain's natural defense against overload. it's why when you hear a family speaking a language you don't understand, you won't remember the way it sounded. your brain just filtered. but once you start learning the langauge, you build yourself a catagory for it, and slowly stop filtering...
aaaaaand there was more i was going to say but i gotta jet cause i gotta get ready for student teaching stuff BUT I HOPE THIS CLEARS IT UP SOME