200 - Socks and Crocs (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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The Importance of Distance in Art and Video Games
All works of art are optical illusions representing not what's out there but what happens inside your brain when you interact with the real world. We don't receive distance information via our senses we assume it based on associations that we have correlated with distance in the past. Our broadly similar brains decode those lines in painted pixels to create an illusion of distance where there is none. There are other images images called by stable perceptions that the brain decos into one of two possible subjective experiences and since it can't decide which one is the right one the most useful one the most accurate one it switches back and forth seemingly at random.
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