These 9 Illusions Explain How Your Brain Creates Reality

↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ Optical illusions are fun, but they can also teach us a lot about how our brains work. In particular, how our brains accomplish the incredible feat of constructing a three-dimensional reality using nothing but 2-D images from our eyes. A young artist and...

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