[Unedited] Frank Wilczek with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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How We Reconstruct a Three Dimensional World
Each of us is born to become an accomplished, if unconscious, practitioner of projective geometry. We use all kinds of tricks and rules of to guess what the external world is. And sometimes it's wrong, without mental arrangements. In most circumstances, we do this remarkable feat of reconstructing a three dimensional world from two dimensional information that's all scrambled up with things on top of each other. It had a tremendous effect, historically and psychologically, when these rules were discovered in the italian renaissance. The artist took enormous joy in their sudden ability to render the world the way it actually looked.
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