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How Optical Illusions Work

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The Lazy Brain

Lag time is basically when, you know, everything seems to happen instantaneous when you look at something. But there's just the slightest little lag in the time it takes for that to happen. And one of the theories with optical illusions is the brain is trying to predict in that slight, slight, slight,. I'm not good with small units of time. Is it, is nanosecond short? Yeah. Nanosecond is definitely short, but I think we're talking tenth of a second. Yes. Okay. The lag time seems to me to be like one specific slice of this, the, the general tricks of the trade that the brain uses to cut corners. Right.Yeah

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