I know, right? There has to be someone doing serious studies about what this tells us about human neurology.
Like, our brains are clearly processing these images on both the "zoomed-out general impression" level, and the "paying careful attention to fine details" level -- and I don't think we've ever had such an effective way to test those separately before. There are images like impressionist paintings, where you get low-detail blobs assembled in a way that looks right from a distance...but no pre-existing big set of "images with lots of detail, almost to a photorealistic level, but they're the *wrong* details, but somehow *those* are assembled into a greater whole that looks right from a distance."
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Like, our brains are clearly processing these images on both the "zoomed-out general impression" level, and the "paying careful attention to fine details" level -- and I don't think we've ever had such an effective way to test those separately before. There are images like impressionist paintings, where you get low-detail blobs assembled in a way that looks right from a distance...but no pre-existing big set of "images with lots of detail, almost to a photorealistic level, but they're the *wrong* details, but somehow *those* are assembled into a greater whole that looks right from a distance."