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Optical Illusions
“
Like the moon shining bright
Up high with all its grace,
I can only show you at night
And hide half of my face.
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― Pierrot & Columbine
― Pierrot & Columbine
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Hallucinations relate to the higher cognitive functions of the brain. I was reading about someone at Columbia who asked volunteers to differentiate between houses and faces. Signals in the frontal cortex became active whenever subjects expected to see a face, irrespective of what the actual stimulus was. They would look at a house and "see" a face.
It's called, you know Predictive coding. The brain has an expectation of what it will see, then compares this with information from the eyes. When
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― The Blasphemer
― The Blasphemer
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