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BBC Brain Story part 3 The Mind's Eye - Optical Illusion
posted by berticus 1 year 6 months 4 weeks ago • 7458 views
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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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AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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  | 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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No, it wasn't obvious.


written by rychan  | 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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*brain


written by berticus  | 8 months ago | CH
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ugh, i still haven't learned to stop doing that to my own posts..


written by berticus  | 8 months ago | CH
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*promote the brain


written by rasch187  | 7 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 3:49pm PST - promote requested by rasch187.


written by siftbot  | 7 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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We have/had one of these at our 'kids' science galleries. This one looks a lot more classy. But yeah, why not show it from another angle as well?


written by NicoleBee  | 7 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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*promote


written by MycroftHomlz  | 7 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 6:00am PST - promote requested by MycroftHomlz.


written by siftbot  | 7 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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i will *promote the hell out of this


written by peggedbea  | 3 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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Invocations (promote) cannot be called by peggedbea because peggedbea is not privileged - sorry.


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