This is how the brain draws an image based on previous experience, perception stereotypes, as well as direction, angle and point of view, and as a result, it can mislead us.
I wonder how some tribes from the depths of Africa who are not familiar with the conventional image of a parallelepiped will perceive such an illusion?
The inscription claims that this is just a lamp, and not at all what the imagination suggests:
This is an interactive model of the solar system in the heliocentric perspective "as in a textbook" that is familiar to modern humans (naturally, not to scale). If in the lower right corner of the picture you switch to the geocentric model (before Copernicus), then the visual movement of the planets will become noticeably more complicated. It is even more difficult to understand these movements while on the surface of the rotating Earth. Nevertheless, all the observed movements will be completely real, correct, because these are "the same eggs, only a side view." We especially note that no one has yet seen our solar system from this perspective, not even spacecraft.
It's all about the point of view. To understand a system, one must study it from the outside and at the same time choose the optimal points of view, i.e. at the most informative viewing angles and scales.
To discover the harmony and chaos of different pendulums swinging completely independently, you also need to find the correct point of view.
The museum in the Dutch city of Utrecht contains an old plaque measuring 31x24x5 cm with a portrait of the Pope. It seems that this is nothing special, but if you turn it over, then the profile turns into the head of the devil. In the 16th century, this double image was minted even on coins, accompanied by an inscription in Latin: "Mali corvi malum ovum" ("Filthy raven filthy egg").
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This is a photograph of a rock and its reflection in Lake Birmanian in Myanmar (Burma):
It is possible to see its most interesting, “true” form only on certain days of the year, when the sun illuminates it at a certain angle. And if you rotate the photo 90 degrees, you can see what is so exciting about this miracle born of nature….
The invention of mirrors and pampering with reflections led at one time to the invention of the kaleidoscope … Many opinions on the network on the same subject - the same kaleidoscope, when the subject itself is no longer reliably identified. But there is also photoshop …
Is it possible to consider that the solution to the picture is final or were we deliberately confused?
The consequence of an excessive number of points of view, opinions and other information noise is cognitive dissonance and a break in the pattern …
“They will look, but still they will not see anything. They will hear, but still they will not understand anything."
To successfully advance in understanding the world, you need to be able to change your point of view. The immutability of the point of view invariably gives rise to the illusion of understanding.
We see what we are used to seeing based on previous experience:
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