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Sometimes it’s neccesary to remind ourselves just how incredibly awesome the human body is. Sure, we spend plenty of time agonizing over the way we look on the outside, going to incredible lengths to ensure that we are appealing cosmetically, but do we really appreciate enough just what a masterpiece of evolutionary design our species is?
Twitter user foone has put together an informative example of just one of the awesome functions our brains are capable of. It’s a handy reminder that no matter what flaws we might find within ourselves, we are all actually insanely advanced biological computers, the product of a long and complex evolutionary process that is just stunningly inctricate and adaptable.
Scroll down below to check it out for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments! (Cover image: Thomas Claveirole)
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Jace 7 years ago
Does it? I missed that part, if so. We think we look wrong in photos because the majority of the time we see ourselves, it's backward in a mirror and that is what forms our self-image.
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Bored Office Girl 7 years ago
That's super interesting. Humans with normal vision are actually blind for a total of about 40 minutes every day, when you add up all the moments of the saccadic masking. The trick with the L and R was very cool. I couldn't believe the R disappeared.
Caroline Espenschied 7 years ago
I couldn't believe the SIZE of the blind spot when I did the trick ! I could see the letter dissappear and return, and the distance between the two made me freak out !
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Leopoldo Pisanello 7 years ago
My first thought were exactly about "Blindsight" when the saccades came up :) Great, great book, quite difficult to read though.
Gabby D 7 years ago
The bit about colour reminds me of something that happened to me a few years ago. I was playing with play dough with my young son and there were two colours - pink and orange. We had the pink, the orange was on a shelf behind me. My son doesn't like to use multiple colours at the same time so we were making all pink fruit. He suggested we make an orange so I turned to the shelf, pointed at the orange play dough and said 'why don't we use the orange (colour) just this one time.' He looked at me like I had two heads and said 'mummy, we ARE using the orange!' I looked back at the shelf and sure enough it was the pink pot, although I am 100 percent certain it was orange when I first looked. I then looked at the play dough we were playing with - it was clearly pink. I blinked, then when I opened my eyes it was orange. I actually dropped it in surprise - to me it literally changed colour in my hands when I blinked. I figured my eyes thought the original pot was pink at first and ran with it
Jace 7 years ago
Does it? I missed that part, if so. We think we look wrong in photos because the majority of the time we see ourselves, it's backward in a mirror and that is what forms our self-image.
Load More Replies... Bored Office Girl 7 years ago
That's super interesting. Humans with normal vision are actually blind for a total of about 40 minutes every day, when you add up all the moments of the saccadic masking. The trick with the L and R was very cool. I couldn't believe the R disappeared.
Caroline Espenschied 7 years ago
I couldn't believe the SIZE of the blind spot when I did the trick ! I could see the letter dissappear and return, and the distance between the two made me freak out !
Load More Replies... Leopoldo Pisanello 7 years ago
My first thought were exactly about "Blindsight" when the saccades came up :) Great, great book, quite difficult to read though.
Gabby D 7 years ago
The bit about colour reminds me of something that happened to me a few years ago. I was playing with play dough with my young son and there were two colours - pink and orange. We had the pink, the orange was on a shelf behind me. My son doesn't like to use multiple colours at the same time so we were making all pink fruit. He suggested we make an orange so I turned to the shelf, pointed at the orange play dough and said 'why don't we use the orange (colour) just this one time.' He looked at me like I had two heads and said 'mummy, we ARE using the orange!' I looked back at the shelf and sure enough it was the pink pot, although I am 100 percent certain it was orange when I first looked. I then looked at the play dough we were playing with - it was clearly pink. I blinked, then when I opened my eyes it was orange. I actually dropped it in surprise - to me it literally changed colour in my hands when I blinked. I figured my eyes thought the original pot was pink at first and ran with it
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