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TobyBartels comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 7 - Less Wrong
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The first time, I noticed the ‘C’ only. The second time, I consciously noticed them both. (ETA: This isn't the test that I took before.)
To what extent might your feeling that ‘I knew that I had seen the C’ be influenced by their having earlier told you that you would? (For that matter, what are the odds that what I ‘consciously noticed’ was an illusion?) An interesting test might be one where there is no ‘C’, asking people whether they saw it.
Without the test it's impossible to know. I find it quite plausible that some part of my brain noticed the attention blink because it was primed to it and "filled in" the C.