Visual Illusions: Catching the Brain Creating Reality

Brian is THE MAN. He has the remarkable power to understand the science and translate it to those of us who get stuck at the math!

Having experience w psychedelics and (not related) a psychosis due to insomnia, I've come to learn quite early that what we perceive is not to be trusted. At least not automatically, our brains are a wild thing and we have less control over our "reality" than we think.

There is no other than Brian who can conduct this type of discussion and interaction at this level. The Best.

Keep in "mind" that these funky little quirks of sense perception aren't limited to vision either. For instance, if you show two different subtitles while playing a muffled audio track, people will hear different words each time. Also, we don't so much smell particular scents as we do *changes* in the odors around us, which is why other people smell bad but you don't. And it probably even explains why most people have horrible taste!

Highly interesting, Absolutely brilliant, thank you Brian and the guests 👍

Very constructive and useful for these times of conflict and misunderstanding. Thank you!

Listening to this made me scared of being in the dark in a brightly lit room realizing that I cant actually see the world exactly as it is is like trying to see in a dark room.

∘∞💕 Thank you "World Science Festival", thank you Prof. Brian Green! Thank you Susana Martinez-Conde, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Emily Balcetis.

When you 'highlight' the lines that differentiate the illusion of perception, it obfuscates the real problem of perception, and makes it appear as if it's a trick.

Our host's gesticulations are worth the time it takes to watch this upload.