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We have optical illusions, which can make you answer a lot of questions wrong like Is this a face? Are these lines straight? Is this stationary? What colour
by IanCal 9y ago
We have optical illusions, which can make you answer a lot of questions wrong like
Is this a face?
Are these lines straight?
Is this stationary?
What colour is this?
These even work across vast numbers of people.
With full knowledge of a person's brain and the connections, we would surely at least be able to enormously improve on this.
What other things might be possible? Could we make people move in a certain way, do or say certain things? There's no fundamental reason we'd be limited to affecting the visual processing sections of the brain.
And now I need to read snow crash again.
- Nition 9y ago> What other things might be possible? Could we make people move in a certain way, do or say certain things? At least to some extent it's possible, with hypnotism.
- Lorkki 9y agoThey also tend to implicitly make viewers aware that their sensory apparatus is doing something strange, because people aren't structured to only answer those single questions.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoNot all of them. Some illusions are structured like relatively "normal" images, so unless you explicitly draw attention to the issue, people will just accept what they see and move on. See e.g. tower on a chessboard, or blue/pink dress thing.
- Lorkki 9y agoI see the tower on a chessboard as more of an illustration than an illusion, the point being that we don't really observe absolute colour because it's not terribly useful for making sense of space (which is what sight is for). The dress is sort of a variation on the same theme, except it divides people by how they extrapolate the rest of the scene.
- Retric 9y agoPlenty of illusions don't seem strange. Ex: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebbinghaus_illusion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebbinghaus_illusion