
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation
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The Optic Nerve Test
Psychologists have known this forever. In any good course on law or eyewitness testimony, certainly psychology,. You do that experiment in the college classroom where the professor's just teaching and then someone comes in and robs the professor of their wallet. And you will report accurately, according to your brain, that there was nothing there. But that doesn't mean that you captured an objective truth. By the way, we knew this from grade school, from the playing telephone. Everybody's played telephone before. It affects, are you human? Yeah.
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