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[Anonymous No.9104237]

Can someone explain to me, in scientific terms with regards to psychology or neurology, why when I was a young child or 4 or 5, the strip mall down the road from my house looked to me like an amazing ancient Native American relic of the past, filled with tribal native motifs, watch towers, and tee-pee settlements, which was no doubt created by skilled Native American craftsmen long long ago. But now that I'm an adult it just appears to be a shitty brown strip mall with zigzaps on the walls, with a couple fake plastic tee-pees on the roof...?

[Anonymous No.9105091]

>>9104237
How was your relation with your mother?

[Anonymous No.9105125]

>>9104237
>psychology or neurology
I can't help you with either of those pleb-tier sciences, but I can explain this with semiotics.
When you where a child the cheesy Native American motifs at the strip mall seemed legitimate to you because you, as a naive child had not yet learned to recognize them from legitimate Native American architecture. When you saw teepees and the geometric patterns, these are the representamines you identified from the object(the strip mall) all the cheesy parts of the mall you had not yet learned to recognize, so while part of the object they were not representamines, this is how you got the interpertant "relic of the past, filled with tribal native motifs, watch towers, and tee-pee settlements, which was no doubt created by skilled Native American craftsmen long long ago" from the object "shitty brown strip mall with zigzaps on the walls, with a couple fake plastic tee-pees on the roof"
There is a lot more you do not see, for example people who are not taught to recognize the color blue, cannot see the color blue, it's just meaningless background information to them. Everything you interpret is constructed from meaning. There is nothing more than what you know.