You don't see reality as it is. You see reality as your brain thinks it probably is.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Fuck you, Ames Window (many of you have probably come across this):

• Demonstrates our brains prioritise assumptions over raw data. Perception is a best guess not a direct feed, here we are predictively processing. Reality = sensory input + built in expections.
• Depth cues like perspective and motion are ambiguous... When two cues conflict the brain fucken brute forces it, picks one interpretation and makes it fit what it thinks will happen.
• What we are 'seeing' in reality is like a controlled hallucination mechanistically. The brain is constantly predicting, correcting errors and then making shit up to fill the gaps.

I feel betrayed 💀

Edited yesterday at 10:31 AM by Natasha Tori Maru

[bazera]

That is so freaky, especially when he puts the pen inside 🤯

Come on brain, what else are you lying me about!

I just saw this one the other day. Color gets darker based on which one you look at.

How is this even possible 😀

I think it's based on a fact that peripheral vision gets blurry wheneven we focus on one thing and that makes the color seem a bit dimmer.

[bazera]

1 hour ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

• Demonstrates our brains prioritise assumptions over raw data. Perception is a best guess not a direct feed, here we are predictively processing. Reality = sensory input + built in expections.
• Depth cues like perspective and motion are ambiguous... When two cues conflict the brain fucken brute forces it, picks one interpretation and makes it fit what it thinks will happen.
• What we are 'seeing' in reality is like a controlled hallucination mechanistically. The brain is constantly predicting, correcting errors and then making shit up to fill the gaps.

It's very fascinating how our whole system is organized towards survival. In attempts of transcending it, sometimes we tend to demonize it in subtle ways, but if you think about it, it's such an intelligent force, so much goes into it, what you referred to as controlled halicination, just imagine how complex the mechanism of it is. 

And the freakiest aspect of it is that mechanism drives so much of our behavior, our thoughts, our metaphysical assumptions, everything about us probably, and how little do we know of it. But even though it makes us kinda zombies without consciousness work, without that force we'd be dead by now, not even being able to contemplate the truth of it. 

Edited yesterday at 12:31 PM by bazera

[bazera]

This is another famous example that I like, where brain just assumes the circle, even though a second ago you clearly distinguish just moving balls up and down.

Music is so unfitting though, lol.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

@bazera exactly - it's horrifying! 

It puts into doubt all the 'knowing' we think we have.

The power of not knowing 

[Ulax]

Have not come across this before. Would have remembered that stache hahaha

[kavaris]

I mean, we are breaching the topic that no one can breach. But hey... Why not, right... Like, okay, reality or the reality that we are working on... Thats the perspective we can speak on... Cause to speak towards the -istemi to,

— is to breach the point that we couldnt return from. We mostly speak to the point that people can still communicate (even if it doesnt seem like they are understanding you). I mean, if we say its an illusion, we can still speak to each other about it, cause that part doesnt quite yet breach through.

Like its almost like a test, right, "Are you gonna breach it? Are you gonna breach it? Are you gonna touch the chocolate?"

its like, We can share a space of illusion since the paradox isnt quite breached yet. Like, to realize  -is to be fucked, possibly in a good way if you dont mind, like eventually thats actually the last thing that you are worried about, granted its literally like self deteriorating. I mean, it IS derealization im describing, so, its not to be taken lightly, try as we might. i mean... im speaking to illusions of course.

 

Edited 8 hours ago by kavaris

[Carl-Richard]

Bruh the pen broke me.

Reading cognitive science and neuroscience is basically getting this point hammered into your head again and again. It breaks your mind after a while. "Prediction errors", "forward models", "cognitive schemas", "fast-and-frugal heuristics", "ecological rationality", "Gestalt psychology", "top-down vs bottom-up processing".

Edited 1 hour ago by Carl-Richard

[Leo Gura]

You don't see reality as it is.

You see reality as it isn't.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

@Carl-Richard what is more fucked up is as an artist raised on first principles in fine art, I was taught myriad tricks in rendering images to fool the onlooker. So a serious of random lines close up look like a mess but then from afar it's a reed bed on water etc. I feel like I should know better, but the depths of self deception is like a recursive shit spiral of lies 😭

34 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

You don't see reality as it is.

You see reality as it isn't.

This deserves a blog post - Actualized.org quote style, imo 

Edited 30 minutes ago by Natasha Tori Maru