<Tab/>In Gould's essay "Some Close Encounters of a Mental Kind," Gould tries to shake our belief in the credibility of what we see or remember by offering us an experiment and an experience whereby the human mind is easily fooled. I have found through my own experience, as Gould's stated, "certainty can be both a blessing and a danger." I am entirely convinced from Gould's essay that what people perceive …showed first 75 words of 745 total…

…showed last 75 words of 745 total…Encounters of a Mental Kind." By offering us Lotus' example Gould proves that the human mind although extremely powerful, can easily be deceived. We should struggle to inspect the credibility of what we see or remember seeing should. Gould offers us no resolution as how to do such unbiased inspecting but I believe we should console facts before memories. We can not be certain the facts are accurate because we can not trust our memory.