the.com/optical illusion
your eyes filing an honest report your brain edits for drama.
means a visual stimulus that tricks perception into seeing something different from physical reality, because the brain guesses instead of just looking.
from from optics, the study of light and vision; the phenomenon got serious study in the 1800s when scientists like Müller and later gestalt psychologists realized the eye sends raw data but the brain does the storytelling, and sometimes lies.
brain fills gapsvision is 80 percent inference, 20 percent light
same neuronsillusions activate real motion detecting neurons falsely
universal glitchmost illusions fool nearly every human brain
animals toosome illusions even trick pigeons and fish