article_snippet.sent: ‘Our visual data is actually astonishingly sparse and
article_snippet.sent: even if Our were able to accurately record and process every photon that reaches Our eyes, Our’d still have too little data to be able to reconstruct the world accurately,' He said.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Our visual system takes Our visual system best guess and sends that to the conscious mind,’ He continued.
article_snippet.sent: But it's not just about lighting conditions or optical illusions - evidence is mounting that until we have a way to describe something, we may not see its there.
article_snippet.sent: The way that the brain compensates for the limited data the brain receives is by maintaining a model of the real world that the brain constantly updates as new data comes in. '
article_snippet.sent: And it is that model, not the real world, that you experience and trust implicitly.
article_snippet.sent: We are inference machines, not objective observers.
article_snippet.sent: He then showed a red and blue pill on hands that were shown on a yellow background to give an example of how this inference model breaks down.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Abrash recently used this image to show how vision is simply our perception of the world, but isn't realty.
article_snippet.sent: What it is interested in is identifying potentially relevant features, in the real world, under a variety of conditions. '
article_snippet.sent: Your visual system is reverse engineering reality rather than just recording Your visual system.