Page 59 - Matter: The Other Name for Illusion

The method that painters use in their paintings is also valid for the image
that occurs in the brain. Depth, light and shade are produced by the same
method in two dimensional space in the brain. The greater the amount of

detail in the picture, the more realistic it appears and the more it deceives our
senses. We behave as if there was real depth and distance, as if there was a
third dimension. However, all pictures are like a film square on a flat surface.
The visual cortex in the brain is extremely
small! The distances, the images such as
those of distant houses, stars in the sky,
the moon, the sun, airplanes flying in

the air, and birds - they are all crammed
into this small space. That is to say, there
is technically no distance between a
glass that you can hold by extending
your hand and an airplane that, if you
looked up, you would understand to be
thousands of kilometers above; all of
them are on the single surface, that is, in
the sense center of the brain.

For example, a disappearing ship
on the horizon is not actually miles away
from you. The ship is in your brain. The
window sill that you are looking at, a
poplar tree in front of the window, the
road in front of your house, the sea and

One of the significant elements which provides
the feeling of depth is tissue differentiation.
Tissues closer to us can be observed in detail
while those further away appear less clearly.
For example as we can observe from the
picture on the side, a three dimensional tissue
has been created on a paper with the feeling
of depth, and which seems to be embossed
due to the use of color, shadow and light.
Even though all the dots are white in the
above picture, they appear to be flashing in
both black and white.

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