The author seems to have written this to create some sort of expectations and no expectations are built, in the context of storytelling or writing, if it is not to impress somehow the reader (either by corresponding to the expectations or not corresponding in an interesting, revealing way).
Top-down processing refers to how our brains employ facts that has already been brought into the brain by way of one or greater of the sensory structures. Top-down processing is a cognitive technique that initiates with our thoughts, which float right down to decrease-degree capabilities, including the senses.
Answer: Rhubard farmers trick the plant into acting like seeds by showing them acts of there previous stages such as placing soil on them so the think they are back in the ground because they have no visual sense.
