The Espionage

I was driving home the other day on the Hutchinson Bypass. It is a toll road that runs between Delmont and New Stanton (southeast of Pittsburgh, PA). It was late evening, but the the Hutchinson is a new road with many street lights.

So I am driving home. Well up ahead I can see red tail lights on the side of the road. Sometimes police cars sit on this road to catch speeders. My initial perception is to define the entity ahead as a police car. It has red tail lights just like a police car. It was on the side of the road like a police car. I have no choice but to assume it to be. I slow down just in case. As I approach, it becomes clear that the entity is not a police car. It is a semi truck! This is really fascinating to me. Somewhere on the Hutchinson Bypass, a witness (me) saw a police car (first perception of entity) morph (change perception) into a semi truck (second perception of same entity). An entity’s identity changed right in front of me. I got to thinking that this probably happens all the time, but we never think of it in this way!

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