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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 17 Jan 2017
      Replying to @christianjbdev

      I think if pressed, he'd probably agree that it's a kind of semantic bait and switch to make a deeper point.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    2. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 17 Jan 2017
      Replying to @Intrinsic29 @christianjbdev

      Equivocation isn't always malicious and the point is a good one to make to people who may not fully understand vision.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    3. Kevin‏ @Intrinsic29 17 Jan 2017
      Replying to @Intrinsic29 @christianjbdev

      But it's commonly understood that optical illusions are demonstrable ways that our visual modeling predictably fails us.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    4. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 17 Jan 2017
      Replying to @Intrinsic29

      He was referring to how our brains are constantly turning a noisy incomplete signal from the optic nerve into something which

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    5. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 17 Jan 2017
      Replying to @christianjbdev @Intrinsic29

      *feels* smooth and solid and real, even though the signal really isn't anywhere as good as our experience leads us to think.

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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 17 Jan 2017
      Replying to @christianjbdev @Intrinsic29

      I read an explanation of this for the scientifically-challenged.Why we see things as solid which are mostly air

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    7. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 17 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Sounds like a different thing. To do with the wave nature of light. Wavelength bigger than particle spacing. @Intrinsic29

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    8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 17 Jan 2017
      Replying to @christianjbdev @Intrinsic29

      Is it? I thought it might be relevant coz it explained why its more useful for us to see things as they aren't.

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    9. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 17 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      It's complicated! But we can't see through things cos of the properties of light. Light waves have a size. @Intrinsic29

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    10. (((Christian JB)))  🐌‏ @christianjbdev 17 Jan 2017
      Replying to @christianjbdev @HPluckrose

      When that size is bigger than the spacing between particles, it's too big to pass through. (Simplified for Twitter) @Intrinsic29

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 17 Jan 2017
      Replying to @christianjbdev @Intrinsic29

      OK, so a different reason for it appearing solid than because it was useful for us to see it that way.

      11:42 AM - 17 Jan 2017
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