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Old Jun 28, 2010, 09:29 AM
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Look at this:



Is this a picture of a young girl or of an old woman?

This was brought to my attention recently in a course on the brain, to illustrate that what we see is a matter of interpretation in our brains, not just in the eye, or in "reality". Similarly, what we see as a quality of something that we perceive about the world outside ourselves is an interpretation, not "the thing itself".

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Thanks for this!
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