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Our Brains are broken?

Started by Data, June 06, 2024, 19:51:48 PM

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Data

Two identical pictures but one is upside down  :scratch-head:

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Snowcrash

This is called the Thatcher effect, I think it was a picture of Margret Thatcher that they did that too.
Your brain is hard wired to see faces and as a child they can appear at any angle above you so it's the eyes and mouth that are more important.
"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Data

Thanks for the excellent explanation Snowy  :thumbsup:

I wonder what else our brains are hard wired to that we haven't discovered yet? After all it wasn't that long ago that Margret Thatcher was around, quite a recent discovery really.

Freddy

I think I saw that on QI. It reminds me of another cool brain thing:


Freddy