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The range of human perceptual experiences (with Anil Seth)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Dangers of Optical Illusions
I feel that optical illusions help us gain an incentive this because you can have these optical illusions where maybe the image looks like it's moving when it's not. And sort of kind of illustrates that what's going on in the simulation within your mind is not always the same as what's happening in the actual world. I use them a lot to illustrate a lot of things we've been talking about. They're amazing, beautiful illusions of color where you can show people, for instance, a Rubik's Cube with lots of little tiles on which are different colors. But there's a danger because it reinforces the false idea that when we're not being tricked by an illusion that we might be seeing
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