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Ep4 "Do people experience different realities?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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The Reality of Vision

The key is we accept whatever reality our brains serve up to us. A very tiny fraction of the female population doesn't just have three types of color photoreceptors in their eyes, but they have four type because of a mutation. As a result, they perceive colors that the rest of us can't even imagine. Their reality is different. But either way, that's the reality that you know.

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