I think if pressed, he'd probably agree that it's a kind of semantic bait and switch to make a deeper point.
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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.
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Replying to @Intrinsic29 @christianjbdev
But it's commonly understood that optical illusions are demonstrable ways that our visual modeling predictably fails us.
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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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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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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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Replying to @HPluckrose
Sounds like a different thing. To do with the wave nature of light. Wavelength bigger than particle spacing.
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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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Replying to @HPluckrose
It's complicated! But we can't see through things cos of the properties of light. Light waves have a size.
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Replying to @christianjbdev @HPluckrose
When that size is bigger than the spacing between particles, it's too big to pass through. (Simplified for Twitter)
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OK, so a different reason for it appearing solid than because it was useful for us to see it that way.
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