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Euvie Ivanova
@euvieivanova
Our eyes don't see what is there. Not even close. Here is a thread full of the ridiculous hacks our eyes and brains make to create a sense of complete and continuous vision.
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
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You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? OK, so there's a physical problem with our eyes: We move them in short fast bursts called "saccades", right? very quick, synchronized movements. The only problem is: they go all blurry and useless during this
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Euvie Ivanova
@euvieivanova
The human brain and sensory networks have evolved to make you survive and breed, not to create an accurate representation of the world around you.
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
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Yeah this stuff is fascinating science. It's also old news. I wish people would come to terms with it in a sane way, but that's also outside the framework of our standard code. Massively so, as biases had (and still have!) connections to traits that confer survival advantages.
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Euvie Ivanova
@euvieivanova
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Biases keep humanity alive. Example: the common bias where a man sees an attractive woman and automatically assumes she wants him. Evolutionary advantage: he is going to be more likely to confidently approach her, making procreation more likely. It's dead simple.
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There is also more than one niche. Some traits are not BROADLY adaptive, but are parasitic and so serve to propagate themselves. E.g. antisocial traits in men. They get many kids. They are terrible parents, and do real damage to the women who raise their kids. But they spread.
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