The human brain is INCREDIBLE !!!

Met Sasha over the weekend ... I guess his passion for understanding intelligence is rubbing off on me ...

Here is an interesting illustration of the fuzzy pattern-matching capability of the human mind. The following paragraph contains words whose letter sequences are randomly re-ordered (except for the first and last letters). I think you'll find you can read this quite easily and quickly!

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? I awlyas tghouht slpeling was not taht ipmorant. :-)

... via Dave Brillhart's Blog ...