NSTP Reyes

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Come up with a reflection about the image shown below:

The human mind relies on references. This is both a benefit and a vulnerability. This can save a person’s
life or lead to their deaths. It is how a person navigates their world. We process what we think is reality so
well that we don’t appreciate how complex this is. Reality, though, is too complex for the human mind so
the mind takes advantage of shortcuts. It saves processing power by perceiving things relative to one
another. You can get used to a smell. You can get used to the temperature of bath water. If things aren’t
changing, you can no longer properly sense them. So, why does the image move? Your brain is sensitive
to changes in input. Scrolling the image makes it dance. Your brain repeatedly recalculates its references
using the geometric frame surrounding the main image. If you remove the frame, the image stops
dancing, though it does move. It even moves when it is stationary. This is because some people are not
able to hold their eyes perfectly stationary. The most convincing explanation I have encountered for why
these sort of images seems to have movement involves the delay between the time it takes for an image to
be sensed in the eye and for the brain to interpret it. Your brain does by learning to associate certain
visual patterns with likely outcomes of movement. It’s the repetitive pattern of light points and shadow
repeated over and over. When we see this in day to day live, it’s because of movement. We evolved as
hunter gatherers so our brain is fine tuned to pick up on these things. Even though this is a still image,
because of the shadows, our brains think there will be movement and fills in the gaps by making the
image seem to move. Even when you started focused something like this, your move a little bit. It does
so to avoid the same stimulus on the same nerve all the time. This optical illusion and others like it works
because of the eye movements and how we process what we see.

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