The reading material below is self-explanatory. Once
again, there is a certain logic to reading words, even though at first they appear unreasonable. • Aoccdrnig to research at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in what odrer the ltteers in a word are, the olny iprmoatnt thing is that the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
• The rset can be a total mses and you can still raed it wouthit porbelm. This is bcuseae the human mind deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe.
Incidentally, as a special educator, I worked for many years with students who had reading problems. When slow readers approached words, even familiar ones, they attempted to“sound them out” phonetically as if they'd had encountered them for the first time. Regardless of the techniques I used, it appeared to me that they could not retain the memory of these words as a gestalt. As a result, I feel certain they could never read the two passages listed above.
In Conclusion
The ability to be fascinates me. Being conscious fascinates me. The capacity 
to think captivates me even more. The idea that I exist at all and possess this strange wrinkled organ in my skull that allows me to reason about myself and my own brain is somehow beyond comprehension. It is analogous to a pocket watch (with a brain) quietly ticking away in my pocket but reflecting back on the very fact that it is a machine and that it is, in reality, keeping time.
Of course, the pocket watch is just a metaphor. But the ability for me to think logically and to know when some puzzle, or task, or quest, is unreasonable surely makes existence very interesting. Knowing there are some paradoxes I’ll never solve somehow makes the quest for ultimate answers that much more exciting.
Article comments
1 - Jeannie Danna
This was a fun article to read. My husband is teaching science next year so we have been watching the science Chanel lately. One of your exercises just blew me away! "how we can read as long as the fisrt anbd lsat lteters are corerct!" ...:) thanks
2 - Regis
The mind, or whatever it is, sure is full of surprises, isn't it?
3 - Dr Dreadful
Infinity: it helps if you think of it as a variable rather than a number, which it isn't.
St Anselm: His fundamental error is that he claims in step 1 that the God inside his mind is the greatest one he can think of. He then claims that the God outside his mind is greater than the one inside. He can't possibly know this. This greater God is still in his mind only.