Brain Function.

I was walking next to the posts which line the car parking bays on Uttoxeter’s retail park today and I noticed something interesting. If you see a single post you don’t have to count it. The brain recognises a single object visually. If there are two posts you don’t have to count them either because the brain also recognises a pair visually. And so it continues up to five; beyond five you have to count them. At least I do.

And so I mused and theorised on this interesting phenomenon, and long before I reached Tesco I’d decided that it’s probably because we have five digits on each hand. And when I came back from Tesco I went and talked to a tree instead.