Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You

human beings tend to blindly trust their perception, to the point of considering it to be shared by everyone.

Without thinking, does the black figure seem to be facing us, or does it have its back to us? Are you above it, or below? You’re hesitating…

Now look at the image below: the individual clearly seems to be facing us, their elbows leant on the barrier, and they’re located above you. And now that you have this image in mind, look at the first version of the image again. The interpretation you make of it will copy the scenario that image (a) led you to see, and now the black figure appears to be facing you at a low-angle shot

brain, which shelters our knowledge, operates through estimates. The outcome is that our knowledge of things and of the world is always relative.

something unreal has just happened. This is what we call “magic”.

perception goes through our senses first.

“We don’t see the world as it is, but rather as we are

call “heuristic” this reflex founded on a quick and approximate perception of reality, but which works more or less well.

Our brain, which filters the myriad of ambiguous information that reality permanently feeds us, construes the world and recreates reality, often unbeknownst to us. In most cases, it’s very useful and even vital. But this can also lead to mistakes that may be harmful to us.

because as we were saying earlier, the probability is fixed. But doesn’t it seem more reasonable to realign our way of thinking to the reality imposing itself on us by suspecting for example that the coin toss has been rigged?

because as we were saying earlier, the probability is fixed