brain,illusion,science,the beeb,ames room BBC Brain Story part 3 The Mind's Eye - Optical Illusion

BBC Brain Story part 3 The Mind's Eye - Optical Illusion

posted by berticus

1 year 6 months 4 weeks ago • 7458 views

tags: brain, illusion, science, the beeb, ames room

This is from the BBC documentary Brain Story.

I wanted to sift this clip (from the same documentary) about the question/illusion of Free Will, for the philosophy collective, but it's not embeddable unfortunately.

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This is a good documentary. *requeue

written by berticus

| 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Re-queueing this video for one more try; last queued Saturday, December 8th, 2007 5:43am PST - requeue requested by submitter berticus.

written by siftbot

| 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Cool, but I was kinda waiting for a explanation, a shot from another angle.

written by Abducted

| 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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my story!

written by brain

| 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'brain, illusion, science, the beeb' to 'brain, illusion, science, the beeb, ames room' - edited by djsunkid

written by siftbot

| 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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This is probably my favorite optical illusion. I wonder if it's been used in a horror movie yet. It would have been perfect in The Shining.

written by Ivegotthebends | 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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The thing about these illusions when they're shown on TV is that it changes a biocular cue, into a monocular cue. This tends to make the illusion a bit more dramatic as we lose true depth perception, and which is replaced by depth perception more reliant on visual cues. Our ability to extrapolate depth in a 2 dimensional environment is solely dependent on size and shape. To me this is a lot like a painting, where our knowledge of how things work regarding size, shape and distance, helps us determine the relative sizes of things in a painting.

That's not to say this particular illusion doesn't exist when viewed biocularly, just that it's probably not as profound. I've been in a room like that (it was at some carnival or something) and let me tell you it was very disorienting.

written by Crosswords

| 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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written by Ryjkyj

| 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Kind of disappointing. I was expecting it to change views.

written by southblvd

| 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Damn it, I hate it when my brain wont allow me see things the way they really are.

written by jimnms

| 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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wow. my brain is a jerk for not allowing me to see the truth. my brain is no better than dick cheney.

written by Dignant_Pink | 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Disappointed that there was never a few from another angle.

written by ReverendTed | 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH

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Hm. Guess my brain is malfunctioning then, since I didnt see anything weird or spectacular. Was obvious from the beginning that the room was fucked up...

written by coolhund