Ok I just never imagined that photons hitting camera lenses would not produce a “raw” image that made sense to my eyes - I am stunned and this is a fantastic addition to the canon of things one should know about the modern world.

(I also just realised that the world become more complex than I could understand when some guy mixed two ochres together and finger painted a Woolly Mammoth.)

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bborud 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Your brain does a far more impressive job of fooling you into believing that the image you see of your surroundings in your brain is actually what your sensory apparatus is seeing. It very much isn’t. Just the mechanism to cope with your eye movement without making you woozy is, by itself, a marvel.

Our brains are far more impressive than what amounts to fairly trivial signal processing done on digital images.

	▲	lifeisstillgood 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That reminds me of the explanation of why sometimes you look at the second hand of a clock and it seems like it takes longer than a second to tick- because your brain is actually (IIRR) delaying and extending the time it sends the image (I think)