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Perception Is Everything

Now you see it, now you don't

The retina, at the back of your eye, is an extension of your brain. We experience the sensory world as if the sights our brain creates from the light striking the retina is a faithful representation of what is going on out there in the real world. In actual fact this is mostly an illusion. A very convincing illusion admittedly, but an illusion all the same. All sorts of short cuts and ingenious neural strategies are used to fill in the gaps wherever the brain does not have enough information to do a decent job of capturing reality as it really is.

Of course, under normal circumstances, the brain is so good at “faking it” that we are all under the distinct impression that what we see is accurate. ...