Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 13 of 68

The Muller-Lyer illusion

Consider the Muller-Lyer illusion. Line 1 and Line 2 are of the same length, although Line 2 appears to be longer than Line 1. Even though we have knowledge that tells us the two lines are of equal length, our perception of the two arrows is not privy to this information. Our perception

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