Posted by llrrrpp on August 16, 2006, at 9:54:23
In reply to Re: Do you see what I hear?, posted by pegasus on August 16, 2006, at 9:31:48
Well, Pegasus,
A flying horse has to have trust in him/herself- Don't underestimate your mind!
That's why in human communication it's so important to check in every now and then with our conversational partners- to repeat what they just told us, but in our own words. See if we are in consensus.
Note that the illusion is only for short sounds of one syllable. Occasionally, we might mishear a word when we are expecting another word, but that's okay. Rarely do we have entire conversations with someone where we completely mishear the sounds that are coming out of their mouths!
In general, such illusions are illustrative of the POWER of our minds, not the WEAKNESS of them. The fact that we do pretty well in terms of visual perception and communication in our everyday lives suggests that these abilities are finely tuned by evolution and development. We have to try pretty hard to find little glitches in the system where reality and perception have a schizm (i.e. in this audio-visual, and other types of illusions). For most people, in most circumstances, seeing is believing. (hence the flying horse)
-ll
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