Tem42 comments on Generalizing From One Example - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tem42 14 June 2015 10:51:21PM 1 point [-]

My understanding is that all humans have the 'hardware' to see polarized light, but that most of us filter it out -- that is, it is a software issue. However, you could also phrase this as 'the eyes register the light, but the brain discards the information'.