Why toast always lands butter side down????
Why Queue you join always go slower??
Why when your hands are
full your nose start to itch??
Why, when you lose something u keep finding it the same place over and again????
And why is it suddenly there the fourth or fifth time??
Why do you take the same wrong turning time after time????
Why is the tune you hate the most the one u can not get out of your head??
here is a common answer to al these question-
Murphy’s Law The Jigsaw
Understanding the world is like doing a jigsaw; we look at the piece, check them against
picture on the box, then try to fit them together. For our mental jigsaw the “pieces” are the messages our
senses send to the brain. The “guide picture” is the brain’s expectations and memory used to analyze the messages. Fitting them together is a task for the whole brain, and all tree stages are suffered with Murphy’s malign influence.
Chapter 1 discusses how the senses pick up the jigsaw pieces. As jigsaw go, this sensory jigsaw is pretty tough one. The picture changes ten times every seconds (that’s how often the brain updates its view of the world). Secondly there are million of jigsaw pieces; a million nerve impulses surging towards brain every tenth of a second. It’s a tidal wave of jigsaw pieces, and we have to make sense of them. The best y to we can do is to grab at a few of them as they rush past, and then try to guess the rest picture fro, what we have got.In chapter1 we will see how easy it is for us to get wrong. We will discover some of the techniques we use to filter the input, such as habituation and attention mechanisms.The illusion in chapter 1 and 2 are deliberately designed to send wrong messages, to trip the senses. in a lab ( or in this book ) we can laugh it off because we know they are coming, but out in the street where we dont expect them they can floor us ( quite literally in some cases; i speak as one of millions who have walked into a glass door that shouldn't have been there).
Many Murphy laws stem from our simple inability to see right in front of our noses.Once having worked out what jigsaw pieces we have got and measured them ( in
chapter 2), our brain has to work out what they mean. In
chapter 3 we examine the role of the “guide picture”; our memories. In our mental jigsaw the sight and smells of daily life gives us dots and patches which send us reaching for the memory banks. Is that dot an eye??? Is hat blue patch a bit of sky??? Our memory gives us an idea of what to expect. But when Murphy’s Law is up and active we ignore the facts and believe the expectation: late at night trhe shadow in the corner of the room can remind us of a human outline. Is it bugler????? Murphy’s Law says that more we need sleep, the more that shape in the corner will convert into bugler, probably with a big knife too. Sometimes are memories fail completely- we enter the room to look for something then wonder round like idiots because we cant remember why we were there.
intresting right??? This is jus the starting. The rest half of the book in -
science of think..!!!! 2(Murphy's Law).