Constant comments on Seeing Red: Dissolving Mary's Room and Qualia - Less Wrong

38 Post author: orthonormal 26 May 2011 05:47PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 May 2011 07:01:32PM 16 points [-]

I'm actually an example of this - I was born without the Mystic Eyes Of Depth Perception so I'll never know what stereoscopic vision "feels like".

If you turn something or move around it, even if you only use one eye to do this, your brain puts together the succeeding images to create a three-dimensional visual experience of the scene. Here is an example. If you're curious about "what it's like" to have stereo vision, in my opinion it is not far off from this, without the movement.

Comment author: Lightwave 27 May 2011 08:06:53AM 2 points [-]

Here are two more.

Comment author: john-lawrence-aspden 26 May 2011 07:24:24PM 2 points [-]

The link is well worth following. Wow! Stereo vision with one eye closed!