Sudoku Perception

There is an old saying, so old, that no one remembers it.

Which is my point: All of this information is here on the web right now. Most of it is unknown, unseen, the invisible web, but

that's just a metaphor for what is really invisible, which is the great mass of sensory information that we simply
miss. Lately I've been rather obsessed with this 'dark
information', because it is becoming more apparent to
me that it is key in understanding so much of what drives
and frustrates us.

This same paucity of true information exists in almost everything we're confronted with, simply because there is too much out there for analysis.

What this results in is literally a constructed reality. Witness the fossil record, a paltry handful of rocks that have been through a very selective process that can only hope to support the weight of theory that is in existence now.

In fact, you could characterize this phenomenon as a sociological process, similar to what Thomas Kuhn wrote about, in which a theory becomes more powerful than the data that support it.