I don't think anything that we covered in class last week "surprised" me, per say... but it was interesting to see how my mind played into the perception concepts being demondstrated. Even though we have all seen those eye trick pictures before, and we "know" what the correct answer is when asked if a set of objects are the same size or if the lines are parallel, i still couldn't force my eyes to see those truths in the table picture, no matter how hard i tried. It was interesting to see how regardless of fact that the professor and a couple students measured and prooved that they were in fact the same size, i still couldn't train my eyes to see that.
It is interesting to see how even the rational, logical brain can not always combat what we are perceiving through our eyes... it kind of plays a new angle on the whole "seeing is believing" concept. It is hard to argue with what the mind has been trained to perceive and understand, even if you are seeing the truth with your own 2 eyes. We watched the students take measurements of the tables on the screen, and then watched the professor digitally move the perimeter of one table and place it over the other, clearly showing that the 2 were the exact same size and shape. however, this was still not enough to force our brain to be able to conceptualize that they were in fact the same because of how they were positioned in the picture and what we are trained to perceive about the size and comparison of the 2 based on those positions. It was really weird for me to watch everyone be clearly disproved about our insistance that one table was bigger than the other, and then to listen as everyone continued to struggle to be able to accept that proof... myself included.
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