How optical illusions trick your brain – Nathan S. Jacobs



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Optical illusions are images that seem to trick our minds into seeing something different from what they actually are. But how do they work? Nathan S. Jacobs walks us through a few common optical illusions and explains what these tricks of the eye can tell us about how our brains assemble visual information into the 3D world we see around us.

Lesson by Nathan S. Jacobs, animation by TED-Ed.

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47 thoughts on “How optical illusions trick your brain – Nathan S. Jacobs”

  1. I wonder what would happen if you raised a child from birth with real optical illusions and separated them from others then sat them down to look at these images. What would they see?

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  3. thanks, enjoyed this very much! It just shows to go ya', that our visual sense is a bit unreliable, in the Platonic sense that is 🙂 we are easily fooled…we are chained in the cave viewing shadows of reality, not reality itself, . and what about the Parthenon?…how there is not a straight line in the entire building (to compensate for heaviness, etc) you can actually put a hat on the steps on one end, and you can't see it at the other end…. It's also interesting that our sense of hearing, the last sense to go when we die, is much more "rapid" in its translation & connection to the world, no upside_down screen that is reversed only in the brain, takes time to do all that, not so with hearing….& more than vision is the Greek "logos", reason, logic , sound…. speech, discussion, debate, communication…. interesting implications there, don't you think? that reality is largely invisible….

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