“You have two eyes.
Each eye sees a slightly different world. (Put a finger in front of your face, switch from one eye open to the other and that finger will shift, just a little bit.) But rather than walk around all day seeing in double vision, your brain pulls the world back into one-ness.
Brains decide what we see. Kokichi Sugihara knows this better than anyone. He makes videos that trick your brain into seeing things that you know, you absolutely know, can’t happen.
And yet —
Obviously wooden balls cannot run up a slope. Yet they seem to. Sugihara uses no editing tricks. His props are cardboard and glue, no special effects. All he does is find the precise angle where our brain assumes an impossible act. In this case, he chooses the angle that makes down-sloping planes look like up-sloping planes.
Then he changes the angle and you see how he did it. (Or more correctly, how you did it.)
Brains, you may not realize, make arbitrary assumptions to keep our world intact. Sugihara knows exactly where those assumptions pop into place. Using simple paper and glue constructions, he creates shapes cannily designed to make us see something that isn’t happening.”
Read more at NPR (Thanks Christopher C)
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This is fascinating and frustrating to watch at the same time, if only I understood my mind better.
This is great. Since watching this vid I’ve had a look at other optical illusions on youtube, and they are all fascinating. It is amazing how your brain tries to make sense of the world your eyes see. Makes you wonder what is actually real, and what is your brain’s imagination and assumption.
“Brains, you may not realize, make arbitrary assumptions to keep our world intact”.
Its even more alarming than that. It isn’t our world. Its a personalized internal rendition of the world, unique to each individual. Take the sense of sight as one example. We don’t have a hole in the side of our heads for our brain to look out through. So what is it we are seeing? And more to the point. How do I know what you are “seeing”. Delve into the ramifications of all that, and the reason why we all “see” things differently becomes a little clearer.
WE ARE ROBOTS
“there is no spoon”…
Ouch!!
@Katrina: All the science in the world won’t understand a single woman’s brain, so don’t bother with it
Brains also do see to the exact opposite to create chaos into that seemingly intact world.
And also, I heard from soneone who was seeing and holding and feeling a young guinea pig .. which all of a sudden then was there anymore .. I mean …. I still wonder .. who tricked that chick ? Who placed that guinea pig in her house? Someone probablly wanted to mess with her mind. Although others say that was not necessary anymore …
Hm … the tv .. shows stuff too that isn’t resembling reality that much all the time .. I mean .. 10 cm tall and pretty anorexic .. I don”t buy that.
omg.. thats soooo kewwwwll!!
i love mind tricks and illusions ^_^