I have written a guest blog for Waterstones:
In the past second your senses have picked up eleven million pieces of information. If you thought about each of them for one second it would take more than 18 weeks before you finished. This is clearly no way to go about understanding our environment, such a clumsy approach would have killed our ancestors long before they had a chance to procreate. A fast way of understanding the world around us has always been essential to our survival as a species…
You can read the full blog here: