The Color Wheel and the Crocs

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The green light cancels out the tank rendering it grey so you can do this with other colors. Under sunlight which contains red light his brain saw them as pink their true color. Michael's brain was lying to him and telling him the truth at the same time under normal lighting conditions these crocs would be pink. The shoe is just like the dress in that it works the same way as the dress using all the principles we've talked about so far. Some people see it as mint green and grey and some people saw it as pink and white exactly as Michael had seen that croc back in the day.

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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