The study of attention provides a window into how the brain selects, integrates, and acts upon information.
Among thousands of people, you meet those you've met. Through thousands of years, across the boundless wilderness of time, you happen to meet them, neither earlier nor a bit too late. There is nothing to be said except to ask lightly, "Oh, you're here too?"
"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."