Selective attention is when your brain processes only certain things and filters out unnecessary information. According to Quartz, our minds do this without us even realizing it, and the best demonstration is the 1999 experiment by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris.
In it, viewers watched a video of two teams playing basketball and counted the passes, but because they were so focused on the task, they didn’t notice a person in a gorilla suit walk into the frame. It goes to show how much our minds process and sift through without us even realizing it.
While enjoying all the memes on this list, if you ended up laughing, chances are an electrical stimulation occurred in a small patch of your cortex. These currents in the brain drive our laughter and chuckles, and we don’t even consciously choose to do that; our minds just make it happen.
Most of us think that when we find something funny, our brains register it and then we laugh, but our inner circuitry is actually stimulated first, and then we respond.
No matter how many memes and posts on this list you understood, you’ve got to agree they’re all pretty hilarious. There’s so much to enjoy in our world, and we don’t always need to make sense of what we’re seeing to laugh and have fun with it, don’t you think?
Which joke from this list really stood out to you? Do tell us in the comments below.
