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20 Aug 2011, 7:45 am

I counted 16 passes as I got slightly lost when at one point they went around the back.

Didn't see the gorilla! :lol:



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20 Aug 2011, 9:47 am

It's a demonstration of the power of our brains to filter out irrelevant information. Your eyes see the gorilla because you're looking right at it, but your brain filters it out because it's only interested in the ball being passed by the white people.