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From the Vault: The Halo, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Our visual system can be tricked into seeing things that are not quite there, or enhanced to degrees that don't seem to line up with our normal day to day sensory world. One of my favorite things actually, about our visual systems is that, like, you can prove to people through direct experience that their visual perception of reality is illusion. There's a way where you can find the blind spot caused by your optic nerves as it routs information away from the retina in the back of your eye. A there is a blind spot just right in the middle of your vision wherever you're looking, the stuff, where you can't see anything. I mean, they are a whole host ofa

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