Its amazing how our mind nearly deceives us at times. Really even the greatest computing machine, which paradoxically is part of us than being something we created, has many many bugs!
Makes me wonder if all the shapes and sizes we perceive are near approximations and assumptions that turn out to be accurate most of the times but are curiously inaccurate at times.
These 10 cool illusions say it all.
Makes me wonder if all the shapes and sizes we perceive are near approximations and assumptions that turn out to be accurate most of the times but are curiously inaccurate at times.
These 10 cool illusions say it all.
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good one
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The biggest illusion that we do not realize that we are being belied into for more than a century now is a 'movie', when it is just a sequence of pictures played at a certain frame-rate.
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http://www.ted.com/talks/beau_lotto_optical_illusions_show_how_we_see.html
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@Nicholas - Fantastic talk and presentation by Mr. Lotto. Ultimately, what we see is an interpretation of the sensory information by our brain rather than a true representation of the same. As pointed out in his talk a true representation can have many gaps and without a heuristic system to fill those gaps it may not be useful after all. But whats interesting is how this heuristic system interferes even when there are no apparent gaps in our sensory input.
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I fear you are getting a little over my scope of knowledge at the moment, just graduated high school a year ago
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what do you mean by heuristic system? are you referring to a method of investigation or a model of thinking?
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You are too good for a high school graduate mate. Great going! Heuristic systems are those that learn from previous experience and apply such knowledge to solve current challenges. In the present context brain fills the gaps in the sensory information using previously acquired knowledge of similar objects and situations. These processes also cause various illusions and delusions by acting even when there are no apparent gaps by corrupting our interpretation of the world around us.
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So then would you say that one could develop a heuristic system of thinking to adjust they way our brain interprets the sensory information without the use of a chemical catalyst? What gaps in sensory information are you talking about specifically?
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By gaps I mean incomplete sensory information that cannot by itself be sufficient to rightly interpret the situation. In the TED Talk by Mr. Lotto you were referring to earlier, he clearly explains how incomplete our sensory information can be in certain situations and the need for our brain to step in and fill the gaps. Unfortunately we may not be able to train our brains as this process of enhancing sensory information is part of the subconscious. What chemical catalysts were you referring to?
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well there are things like acid and mushrooms, Etc. As to subcon. There is the school of thought that it can be programmed like a computer
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Training the subconscious/involuntary-processes inside our brains!! There is some evidence but training ourselves out of illusions may also hamper our ability to interpret our surroundings effectively in a majority of circumstances. The processes causing illusions are also the ones that are helping us create a tangible picture when presented with spotty sensory information.
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Maybe not so if done in the correct manner, Computers after all were designed after the brain itself. A complex task center backed by a simple task center with multiple areas devoted to the same specializations in the event of legions or other disturbances. We program them.
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Could be possible! On the other hand, computers are not modeled after our brains, we want them to work like our brains do and we are trying hard to build such things but we are not there yet. Infact our present day computers have very little similarity to our brains. They are just fast command processors whereas our brain can process, learn and react at the same time.
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You might wanna check out the topic on Artificial Intelligence - http://www.talkonomy.com/topic/artificial-intelligence for more on this.
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