11.30.06
Human Minds are the Living Artificial Neural Network
This is all part and parcel of the human brains being able to interpret the jumbled up words in a paragraph. A lot of factors come into play, including length of the word, smooth-flowing sentence, the first and last letter placed correctly, commonly used word (and names), etc…
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too.
Cna yuo raed tihs?
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.
Amazing isn’t it? In some way, our human brains work like probabilistic model describing the most probable outcome from a noisy data, such as the paragraph above. It is just amazing how powerful our brains have been trained and adapted to the environment around us.
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