The Effect of Ambiguous Light on Vision

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Pascal's research showed that since the image of the dress was ambiguously lit the more time you spent exposed artificial light before you saw that dress the more likely you would see the dress as black and blue because your brain simulated the image in your mind as if it was lit artificially. The more time you had spent exposed to natural light the more likely you saw the dress as white and gold, he says. All reality is simulated and you live in a virtual landscape of perpetual imagination that is a self-generated illusion so what i love in this is that it's our experience oh yes please arrival vlogs please and and what matters by the way what matter by the way it's

When facing a novel and uncertain situation, the brain secretly disambiguates the ambiguous without letting you know it was ever uncertain in the first place, leading people who disambiguate differently to seem iNsAnE.

This episode is about why we so often don't understand why we disagree, which leads us to disagree even more, and we explore that through the science behind The Dress. We look into why some people see it as black and blue, others see it as white and gold, and how the scientific investigation of why that is led to the scientific investigation of socks and Crocs, and how the scientific investigation of socks and Crocs may be, as one researcher explains, the nuclear bomb of cognitive neuroscience.

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