The brain has its own building mechanism to update the received information so that they are compatible with formats which can be handled by its computational capabilities.
Experiments in visual psychology have revealed that the brain will often construct sensations that override the visual input if the brain judges that the latter is too improbable. The brain would suppress the improbable mixed information in favour of what it is familiar with and thus compute what is more probable. For example during rapid movement of the eyes, the visual information is suppressed and what we see is largely
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