You are reading this sentence right now. But you are not actually reading every single letter. Your brain is scanning the general shape of words, recognizing familiar patterns, and filling in what it expects to see based on context and experience. If I write a word with a letter missing, you probably still understood it perfectly because your brain automatically supplied the missing information without you consciously noticing the gap. You did not stop and think about it. Your brain just corrected it. This is not a bug in your cognitive system. It is a core feature. Your brain is...