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Right. So there is a received cognitive operating system which generates an interactive model of 'reality' shaped by historic experience, a facet of this system involves 'hierarchical predictive coding.' When parsing percepts, this subsystem front-loads what aspects of a new experience of interest to accept and what to ignore based on shaping from past experience. A simple example: promise a child a quarter if the correct hand is chosen. Place quarter in right hand then fold fingers up, occluding quarter. Appear to grab coin with left hand, quickly close both hands, and present both fists to child then ask 'which hand holds the quarter?'. Based on past experience it would appear that just a transfer of an object from one hand to another took place so child selects the empty left hand. Then immediately rerun the same test with the new experiential history encoded and find the child (usually with a smirk) chooses the right hand (assuming you didn't pocket the coin to further confuse the child).