Re: Amazing illusions

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Jul 05 2003 - 14:45:14 MDT

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    Alejandro Dubrovsky wrote:
    > Continuing on the "our brains are made of mush" series, we have the
    > McGurk effect (i suggest downloading the clip if your browser doesn't
    > cache, because you are going to want to play it a few hundred times)
    > http://www.media.uio.no/personer/arntm/McGurk_english.html

    Interesting. Maybe it's just because I was warned, but I heard:

    "THA THA THA THA THA BA", both with my eyes open, and with my eyes
    closed. Guess I'm one of the 2%.

    Continuing in this vein, we have:
    http://salmon.psy.plym.ac.uk/year3/PSY339EvolutionaryPsychology/EvolutionaryPsychology.htm#beautyandasymmetry

    As we all know, symmetric faces are more beautiful. Here is a thing that
    fascinates me; I can immediately see the symmetrical female face as more
    beautiful, but I don't see any difference in handsomeness between the
    symmetric and asymmetric male face. Having briefly checked a chat
    channel, I find that some men also see no difference in handsomeness,
    while others say they see the symmetric face as more handsome. I wasn't
    able to question any women.

    -- 
    Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
    Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
    


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