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How Optical Illusions Work

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The Brain Makes Shortcuts

The brain is used to the way we move forward in real life, IRL. It's learned to take all sorts of neat little, neat little clues to put together a pretty good prediction of what it's looking at. And so they're giving us two dimensional representations that the brain then has to reconstruct into three dimensions. Right. Another one that makes sense to me as far as why the brain makes shortcuts is that when like the physical world is in at least three dimensions that we interact with it, right? Yeah.

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