The blue lines in this image are parallel. A fine metaphor for the fact that so much of what we perceive is not the way we think it is.pic.twitter.com/WyPiAS5pC6
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Right, some illusions can be messed with in this way. But of course that's different than them being responsive to evidence/beliefs, which still doesn't happen in this case (or any case?)
True. Some of the ambiguous figure illusions seem to be responsive to knowledge - e.g., if you know how to see the young woman you can flick out of seeing the old woman. (But maybe they're not properly illusions?)
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Visuals like this are why scientific literacy is so important.
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"The whole point of science is to probe reality reducing our subjective interpretation by as much as is humanly possible; ideally to zero." - Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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