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Mirror, Mirror
Our brains are very good at sorting visual information into patterns—they love knowing exactly how to label what we’re looking at. They love being able to predict what we’re going to see here, there, and everywhere, based on what we’ve already seen everywhere, there, and here. Brains like having their expectations met. Being right is like a warm mug of milk for hungry neurons. It lets them drift peacefully off so they don’t have to work too hard.
This picture is not warm milk. This picture is hot black coffee. This picture refuses to meet our expectations about what a mirror ought to do and what we ought to see in it. It defies our expectations about reflections. And I don’t know about your brain, but mine is hopping. It’s popping. It’s kind of mad and it wants to know more.
Mirror, mirror. What are you showing me?
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