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[–] razorsoup 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Siethron 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] niktemadur 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] razorsoup 2 points 1 year ago

No, I don't.

[–] polarpear11 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] AnUnusualRelic 4 points 1 year ago

I see them as pills.

[–] superfes 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Siethron 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Barack_Embalmer 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] CodexArcanum 7 points 1 year ago

Perhaps it would help some people to imagine where the light is coming from first? If the light is to the left, they're face-down; if the light is right, then the plates are upright.

[–] Emerald 3 points 1 year ago

Okay so this is actually very cool. I see them face down and then when I find the one that isn't face down they do indeed look face up. However what's really neat is that I can repeat this. If I look back at it again they will be face down and then turn face up when I realize that one is face up. However, it's not always the same one. Any one of these could be the "face up" one to me that causes the switch.

[–] vaseltarp 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Our brain first assumes that the light comes from above that's why it assumes here that the light comes from top left. Then the plates look like upside down. As soon as it finds indications that the bowls are upright and the light comes from bottom right all the bowls look upright. The most left and most right bowls look kind of warped or not flat on the table assumed that they are upside down. The shadow in the middle also gives away that the bowls are not upside down.

[–] Bondrewd 2 points 1 year ago

What if I told you you can switch it back the same way.

[–] SpaceNoodle 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, they're face-down in the thumbnail, but face-up in the full-sized image.

Edit: NVM the ones in the thumbnail flipped