• jet@hackertalks.com
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    5 months ago

    Every eye has a tiny blind spot near the middle. But your brain makes it disappear and you don’t realize it’s there.

    You can verify this. Draw a dot on a bit of paper. Close one eye, stare at a fixed point, now move the paper around the center until the dot disappears…magic

    What we consider reality, is a synthesis our brain is presenting to us, it is an approximation… realizing that is a real mind blower

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      5 months ago

      What we consider reality, is a synthesis our brain is presenting to us, it is an approximation…

      It’s also a coordinated synthesis from all of your input senses (sight, hearing, smell, etc). It also explains why those who have a certain sense stunted (aka blindness, deaf, etc) report having all their other senses heightened. And it’s up to the individual’s brain to assemble those sensory inputs into a complete picture of the world around them, what we dub “reality.” Which then brings into question the nature of common reality, and what defines it. Trippy shit.