专家揭秘：大脑跟我们玩的4个小把戏

It puts itself on autopilot.
大脑自行进入自动导航模式。

You say:  "As I pulled into the office parking lot this morning, I realized I couldn't remember anything about the drive. How is the brain able to work on autopilot like this?"
你说：“今天早晨，我把车驶入办公室停车场，却不记得是怎样一路来到停车场的。大脑怎么能够如此这般自动导航呢？”

Dr. Perlmutter: The monarch butterfly has a brain smaller than a pinhead, and yet it can migrate more than 3,000 kilometres to a specific location. Your big brain can certainly allow you to drive to your office without conscious involvement-although I'm not advocating brain-dead driving. Repeated activities and behaviours create packages of information stored in the brain that, over time, become instructions when those activities are repeated. Under normal conditions, we call upon these instructions for familiar tasks and then make minor modifications moment to moment as our environment changes. If you had seen a large object in the road in front of you, your brain would click back on and you would consciously be able to steer around the hazard.
佩尔穆特博士：帝 王蝶的大脑比针头还小，但它能迁徙3000多公里到达特定地点。尽管我不提倡不动脑子的驾驶，但在没有意识参与的情况下，你聪明的大脑确实能指导你将车开 到办公室。重复的活动和行为产生信息包，贮存在大脑里，时间长了，这些信息包在活动被重复时会转化为指令。正常条件下，在做熟悉的工作时，我们唤醒这些指 令，当环境发生变化时，会随时进行一些小的调整。如果看到前面的路上有个大障碍物，你的大脑会立即警觉，使你能自觉地绕过它。