the brain (Score 1)

The brain is designed to pick out similarities between things that are more different than similar.

It also excells in finding the differences between to very similar things. I think this is what leads to the disharmony between things that are 99.99 % the same. The differences in the two positions seem glaring, even if they are tiny. I've always thought this might explain some of the conflicts between the religious, and most of the conflicts between geeks and their ideas.

coyo