This is supremely interesting because all the evidence indicates people default to susceptibility to these Ponzo and Müller-Lyer illusions irrespective of cultural and socioeconomic status. I remember falling victim to these illusions as a child myself.
What makes this interesting is the inverse. What about the commonalities of people who are blind to the bias imposed by these illusions? Now I am blind to the illusions. I am trying to see the visual bias I remember experiencing as a child but I cannot see it in any examples. I have searched online for more examples and to no avail.
I suspect that when I did fall for the illusions the contextual interference of additional information biased my thinking towards false conclusions. Why is that not so now? The change is not a casual shift of perception but a complete and absolute non cognitive hard difference. Does that illusion blindness influence other perceptions/conclusions and does it do so uniformly in ways not applicable to persons without such illusion blindness?
Bluestein•7mo ago
This is an obvious question but ... could not also our neurons get "rewired" over time, to where you can no longer see it?
austin-cheney•7mo ago
What makes this interesting is the inverse. What about the commonalities of people who are blind to the bias imposed by these illusions? Now I am blind to the illusions. I am trying to see the visual bias I remember experiencing as a child but I cannot see it in any examples. I have searched online for more examples and to no avail.
I suspect that when I did fall for the illusions the contextual interference of additional information biased my thinking towards false conclusions. Why is that not so now? The change is not a casual shift of perception but a complete and absolute non cognitive hard difference. Does that illusion blindness influence other perceptions/conclusions and does it do so uniformly in ways not applicable to persons without such illusion blindness?
Bluestein•7mo ago