Gorillas in their midst: rethinking educational technology

Humans, unlike some species, have a blind spot that derives from an absence of photoreceptor cells in the retina. We usually don’t notice our blind spot because the other eye helps the brain fill in the missing information. This means, as Leonard Mlodinow (2012) suggests, that reality is a little less straightforward than we might imagine. He puts it this way: “senses plus mind equals reality.”