The brain is good at taking the information given it and creating a virtual image, including filling in missing parts. Both for touch and for the mention of hearing to calculate location. It can also be fooled because of this wiring, as it tries to find patterns where they may not exist.
Your brain also has a model of the reality it’s interacting with. If the tactile sensation matches something in the library, that’s the image that gets pulled up.
This system is far from perfect but usually it works pretty well. When it fails, you get false positives, illusions etc.
The brain is good at taking the information given it and creating a virtual image, including filling in missing parts. Both for touch and for the mention of hearing to calculate location. It can also be fooled because of this wiring, as it tries to find patterns where they may not exist.
Your brain also has a model of the reality it’s interacting with. If the tactile sensation matches something in the library, that’s the image that gets pulled up.
This system is far from perfect but usually it works pretty well. When it fails, you get false positives, illusions etc.