200 - Socks and Crocs (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
00:00
The Mystery of the Dress
Pascal had a hunch that the photo of the dress was missing a lot of color information which made it a rare perfectly ambiguous color image. experiences that you had leading up to the present are called your priors and we use our priors to predict the future. Pascal thought what must be happening was as with color constancy the brain was lying to people in an effort to give them something more useful than the truth. Unlike with constancy for this image it was telling different lies for different people two different sets of lies dividing us into two camps with incompatible personal realities white and gold black and blue.
Transcript
Play full episode
