Comments by "nexus1g" (@nexus1g) on ""YOU WON'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES!" - Smarter Every Day 142" video.

  1. That's the trick though, isn't it? What's happening there? I think that as long as the current data matches the old data, the brain doesn't kick in to correct things. I think the brain's pretty efficient, and as long as it doesn't have to work, it won't update anything. As soon as you look away from the original focal point, you're moving that "afterburn" area of your cornea so it no longer matches up with the picture. The patterns not matching on the brain's engram of the last known image must trigger the brain to reprocess the entire image at which time you get a true image since your brain's "awake." That's my guess at least.
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