I just noticed that when replying to posts that if we are talking about a pdoc I use the word him. If we are talking about a T I use the word her. The doctor is always male and the nurse is always female. This is hard wired into my brain from childhood. Obviously I wasn't born with this notion, it is something my mind adopted as a pre conceived notion a long time ago. It's a very inaccurate notion today but it is still with me I noticed. I would have to make special effort to say him/her.

I guess this is just an example of how some concepts are wired into our brain and then they are probably automatically induced before the decision is made. The mind has to have some context before a decision is made and then might start looking for things that fit into that framework after the decision is made.

You have to have some concept of what a drinking glass is before you see a drinking glass and call it that. Just the visual patterns of light reflected on your retina are not enough. If you see a tall glass object with flowers in it you do not think drinking glass you think vase even though they are very similar.

Not a great example. That book I am reading gives much better examples of how we have built in concepts of things before we see them otherwise we couldn't make any sense of it.