Optical Illusions Show us How we See

This video by Beau Lotto concerning illusions was actually really interesting, because he talked about how context is everything when using vision and what color is used for. He also included examples and activites to go with his points which made the presentation interesting and effective.

From this video, I plan to take away the interesting facts he presented, and the way he included specific examples instead of theories. Mr. Lotto also started his presentation with a visual attention getter that showed how illusions affect vision and also relayed what the presentation was going to be about. This helped captivate the audience and hold them while still getting the information across. His technique was effective because it was fascinating in appealing to our natural curiosity and got the audience personally invested so that they would pay special attention to the facts he was relating.

The facts that Mr. Beau Lotto presented connect with me personally because as a high school student, I am being inspired and directed to take care of my own learning, so my curiosity on any topic is approved. I found it interesting that the color and shade of an object depends on the context that the color is being seen in, as well as with liturature. My brain uses color as a way of learning, just like with education. Many teachers color code things, so that the students will relate and connect the topics that they are learning together, so that they can get a better understanding of the topic being studied. This connects to the world, because it is full of color and connections that can be made via color. The world itself teaches our brains to make connections to things by color so that their similarities can be detected.

Humans see surfaces according to the light reflecgted, and as a species, we don't have direct access to the world other than throught the senses.Humans don't only see the color of objects, but the color of illuminations, and the color of space between us and the object, so if any one of those is changed, there could be an infinte number of possible real world sources of color seen. It would be like looking at an illumination of a lightbulb and then putting a filter in between you and the light so that the color would be different even though the light is still the same color. The brain also finds meaning and patterns in information and associates that information with a behavioral meaning and finds significance by interacting with the world, especially with words and liturature. The example Mr. Lotto used was, 'Ca y u rea t is?' there is actually no reason that there should be a letter between the y and u, but you place one there because in past experiences it was useful to do so, so you would do it again; but you don't put a letter between the u and r because it would not have been useful in the past to do so.This moving illusion is an example of how the brain learns and how depending on the light, the rings seem to turn to the left, but then if you blink or move your eyes, the rings seem to turn to the right. There is no correct answer as to which way the rings are turning, because both are likely possibilities.