Mind's Eye; the Brain relies constantly on Visual Memories

Thanks for sharing.

The show is a BBC documentary named "Human Senses". It's #3 of 3, covering Touch and Vision. I found a torrent download of it.

Fascinating ~SuperJ

does anyone remember the name of a documentary that discovery channel ran some 8 years ago about the same subject, where throughout the entire show, a man in a gorilla suit walked around in certain scenes and at the end all scenes were played back to reveal them to the inattentive viewers?

Oh my gosh I was just looking for that documentary for one of my University presentations. Please share with me if you have found it yet?? Cheers

After knowing this, how can one say that any observation at all is objective?

The brain may fill in vision from memory, but footage of a distorted room does NOT demonstrate that!

The reason the room looks correct is not that you assume rooms to be correct, but because it has been designed to remove perspective. It's the architects fooling you, not your brain.

If, however, the distortions of the room WERE visible (if you saw it from a different angle) and you still saw it to be proportional, that WOULD be evidence of your brain influencing your vision.

Yes, yes! This is exactly what Jeff Hawkins talks about in his book "On Intelligence": that the stuff of intelligence is actually the incessant and all-pervasive making of predictions, on the levels of both the conscious and unconscious minds.

Great video. Five stars.

(Re:uzmynem)
I see what you mean. I suppose so; impaired memory would affect perception. But here, we're dealing with something as basic as "what should a room look like". If this is something you can't remember, life must be quite strange regardless of vision.