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People certainly enjoy magic eye books and the like. Defect would imply it's a negative trait. A lot of mental quirks are probably just irrelevant from an evol
by nitwit005 7y ago
People certainly enjoy magic eye books and the like.
Defect would imply it's a negative trait. A lot of mental quirks are probably just irrelevant from an evolutionary point of view.
- Digit-Al 7y agoI would argue that magic eye books and optical illusions are different things. An optical illusion exploits our brains "shortcut" mechanisms, which could be considered taking advantage of a weakness, whilst a magic eye utilises our pattern matching ability, which could be considered as bolstering a strength. Not sure I've explained myself as well as I could, but hopefully I have.
- nitwit005 7y agoEvery optical illusion is some good aspect of vision failing in a limited case. Evolution is presumably selecting for the good aspect, and not the occasional hallucination it produces.