I'm trying to explain how optical illusions work to my young son, and I realized I'm not sure how optical illusions work either. Why are our eyes capable of being tricked by things like optical illusions, such as mirages?
I'm trying to explain how optical illusions work to my young son, and I realized I'm not sure how optical illusions work either. Why are our eyes capable of being tricked by things like optical illusions, such as mirages?
user
Have you heard of "localizationism"? It's a very old idea in biology that says that each part of the brain solves a problem in isolation from the others.
assistant
How does that relate to optical illusions?
user