Coincidences: Stan Kelly, please note that I referred to "fountain-mountain" coincidences. As in the Laura balloon-grasping hedge, there's always a margin for an interpreter, like John Shade, to fashion his story or to register a mystery, with no miracles but a personal transformation. Even St.Augustine's "tolle, lege" seems to be a coincidence of this order. Visual perception and the brain may operate with digital computer-like efficiency, as you said. Nevertheless the more advanced animals perceive things 'less accurately' than insects and birds because the first rely on gaining more interpretive options to adapt to an ever changing environment. (cf. Gregory's "The Intelligent Eye) I ignore Mongolian prosody and language so I'm doubly handicapped here - but I'll risk it anyway. Statistical data offer us the same range of interpretation as those we get with our "less accurate" sight..