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This one never works for me. It’s always face up the whole time

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It never works for me because there is not really a reference point. All I see is schrodinger’s plates.

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10 points

Middle plate on top of another plate is casting a shadow on the plate below and to the left, so the light must be coming from the right. So the plates are face up.

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3 points

The plates are both alive and dead at the same time! Until you collapse the rice-and-beans function.

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1 point

do you live somewhere with right-to-left text?

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2 points

No, I don’t.

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25 points

I can’t see these as anything but face up?

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3 points

I see them as pills.

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2 points

Same

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4 points

Top right.

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It doesn’t matter which does it for you. They’re all using the same shading and highlight scheme. All that matters is what your brain latches on to as one orientation or the other

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Hmmmm… maybe it just takes 2 seconds after reading to make your brain click?

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13 points

Once you see the shadow on the middle left flat big plate the light must be coming from the right (curve of the shadow is wrong for it to be it’s own shadow), so the plates are upright.

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Bayesian Predictive Processing accounts of human cognition (in which it’s sometimes quipped that “perception is controlled hallucination”) offer an explanation for this type of optical illusion, also known as the “hollow face illusion”. We have a strong prior belief that plates should be concave (and faces should be convex) because that’s how they’re encountered most of the time in the world, so your brain generates this percept from its own inner beliefs. But then when you’re explicitly instructed to “see” it a different way, you manually override this effect and then you struggle to see them the original way.

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