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In that second video in the article, he's holding a cutout of the number 9. I wonder if he put it on the paper and traced the outline, including the inner circl
by sawaruna 6y ago
In that second video in the article, he's holding a cutout of the number 9. I wonder if he put it on the paper and traced the outline, including the inner circles, what he'd see. Would the lines be accurate until the pen strokes connected to make an '8' and the result would suddenly scramble?
Also, is it the shape itself or the fact that the shape is a number? In other words, if you put a random cutout of the number 8 on a tree branch rather than have him look at a sequence of numbers, would that make any difference?
- kharak 6y agoMy guess is, that the moment his brain matches the perceived shape to the stored form of 8, it scrambles. That´s why he can feel the individual forms, like the circles inside the 8, just fine. Also why he can see the horizontal 8 as a mask. A mask is a distinct object, although similar in shape. Makes me wonder, if we have a stored shape for every object we've ever seen.