Shadows on the Wall Well over two thousand years ago, Plato imagined a group of prisoners chained inside a cave. For them, reality was nothing more than shadows cast on the wall—flickering shapes mistaken for the whole truth. Only when one prisoner was freed and stepped into the sunlight did he realise that what theyContinueContinue reading “Subjectivity, Perception, and Multiple Realities”
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The Colour Illusion: How the Mind Paints Reality
When you look at a ripe strawberry, is it truly red—or is that just your brain’s interpretation? Surprisingly, colour does not exist outside our perception.It’s a story our brain tells, based on light. From a physics perspective, colour is simply electromagnetic radiation within a specific range of wavelengths—between roughly 400 and 700 nanometres—that the humanContinueContinue reading “The Colour Illusion: How the Mind Paints Reality”
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