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#85: Neuromagic & Illusion - Stephen Macknik, PhD & Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology
Is Your Brain a Direct Copy of Reality?
We only perceive the reality out there thinks to change. If things don't change, we stop perceiving them. Static objects disappear from perception almost immediately without o movements. This has been done in the laboratory with a number of techniques. You can only see in the complete absence of our movements, you can only see things that change. Things that move. We stop. Our neuron stop responding to stimulation tat assing change. And so their eyes move around to make them ange, but they have very little vision anyway. So for example, if you just everybody, hold out your thumbs at arm's length in front of you, so that're looking atyour thumb nail with 12 hundred
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