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Re:Can you make your brain not see this circle illusion? by amelius on Friday August 04, 2017 @06:02AM (#14927519)
I wonder why evolution has not exploited this more.
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Re:Can you make your brain not see this circle illusion? by teddythetwig on Friday August 04, 2017 @07:48AM (#14927969)
It has, think about natural camouflage like zebras. It short circuits the predators ability to pick out individual herd members.
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Re:Can you make your brain not see this circle illusion? by brute on Friday August 04, 2017 @10:48AM (#14929043)
Minor correction: Predators like lions have no problem distinguishing individual members of a herd. The stripes pattern messes with the way blood-sucking, disease-spreading flies (such as horse flies or tsetse flies) see the world.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kbzwpv/the-reason...

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Re:Can you make your brain not see this circle illusion? by lithos on Friday August 04, 2017 @07:09AM (#14927819)
It probably has, it's just that after it has been exploited it becomes a default part of everythings sensory kit.
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