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The reason we have a word for optical illusions is because they are outliers. They represent examples of when your optical sense needs to be checked against ot
by bckr 2y ago
The reason we have a word for optical illusions is because they are outliers. They represent examples of when your optical sense needs to be checked against other perceptions.
- bediger4000 2y agoI'd buy that except that the umbrella term "optical illusion" covers a lot of ground from simple physical things like a blind spot, through those color inverting things, to weird ones that involve computation, where you can't see all 16 dots, or the jagged blocks "heal" themselves. Cats perceiving squares is clearly not optical, but rather computational.