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Nice illustration of a good illusion:

You know I like illusions. Especially when I’m teaching Phenomenology, I’m the prop philosopher, with all sorts of illusions and other perceptual phenomena to show. So how can I resist this frenetic and funny presentation of 10 optical illusions in 2 minutes?

Here’s a kind of naturalistic mistake about what’s “really” in experience that seems to turn up in a lot of places: It’s the idea that some thing like 2-D “frames” of vision are “present” (and maybe all that’s really present) in visual phenomena. (This seems to show up not only in “naive” assessments, but [...]