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[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Human vision is an illusion. It’s mostly inferred, and not representative of how the world actually looks, and I think that’s pretty cool and profound.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 19 hours ago

Eeeeeh i largely disagree. We can objectively measure the world, and 99% of the time what we see is close enough to what we can measure with stuff like spectrometers.

There's a reason we consider optical illusions noteworthy: They're edge cases, different from our usual experience of largely accurately perceiving the world. And the vast majority of the time these optical illusions have to be specifically created, they don't tend to just appear in nature.

[-] KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts 6 points 2 weeks ago

Please explain how the world actually looks

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 19 hours ago

with our eyes, bert.

[-] Sasquatch@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think there's an objective answer to that

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