A lot of them, I feel, can be chalked up to just being things we'd expect; you'd expect a monkey to have a tail, or a rich guy to have a monocle. As disorienting as some of the examples can be, plenty of them can be narrowed down to our minds filling in the blanks. It's fascinating.
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Yeah, it's an interesting glimpse into how our memory works where the brain just reconstructs the scene based on some key details. It's a completely different process from the way we store information in computers.