Your Brain Flips Reality Upside Down Every Second — Here's Why

Podcast: Feynman Reborn: Physics Explained · Feynman Reborn

Opublikowano: 2026-11-03

You've been told your whole life that your brain "flips" the upside-down image in your eye. Sounds neat. Sounds clean. It's also completely wrong — and the real explanation reveals something deeply unsettling about everything you've ever seen. In this video, we explore what actually happens between the inverted image on your retina and your conscious experience of sight, drawing on the optics, neuroscience, and philosophy that Feynman loved to weave into his public lectures. We cover the homunculus problem, George Stratton's famous 1896 inverting-goggle experiment, saccadic suppression, the patchwork illusion of high-resolution vision, and why perception is construction — not rece...