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Neuroskeptic In The Papers

Explore the eerie Hollow Face Illusion and its implications in neuroscience and philosophy of optical illusions.

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Two more academic papers have appeared that refer to this blog:

The Openness of Illusions is a philosophy piece about the epistemological implications of optical illusions. It cites my post about a paper dealing with the spooky Hollow Face Illusion. Long-time readers will remember this, but most of you probably won't, so here it is again; it truly is weird:

In my view, an even better demonstration of the same effect is the incredible magic dragon:

You can make your own dragon by printing it out from this helpful page. It takes like 5 minutes to make and it'll provide hours of philosophical fun.

Meanwhile, Stereotypes and stereotyping: What's the brain got to do with it? takes a neuro-skeptical look at the psychology and neuroscience of prejudice. It flatters me with a mention:

It should go without saying that activity in the brain does not indicate in any way whether ...

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