Bèr Kessels 🐝 🚐 🏄 🌱 on Nostr: npub1tpj2x…9fmcs I wonder if there's not a perceptive difference at play too. Ask ...
npub1tpj2xvh0cm7gsxlg6ry8tf7ca096k272rf7mzhjj9sea0ef500csf9fmcs (npub1tpj…fmcs) I wonder if there's not a perceptive difference at play too.
Ask anyone to draw the sun or the moon, and they'll greatly overestimate the actual size (or, reverse, on photos the sun and moon look tiny). This perception is a well known and studied effect.
Maybe our brains greatly exaggerate a difference in size and luminosity too? So that we perceive it as 'much bigger and brighter' than the actual measured difference?
Ask anyone to draw the sun or the moon, and they'll greatly overestimate the actual size (or, reverse, on photos the sun and moon look tiny). This perception is a well known and studied effect.
Maybe our brains greatly exaggerate a difference in size and luminosity too? So that we perceive it as 'much bigger and brighter' than the actual measured difference?