2023-01-26 Thu 14:26 PM ![[Pasted image 20230126142659.png]] > Mice see, but they don’t know they have visual cortexes, so they can’t correct for optical illusions. A mouse lives in a mental world that includes cats, holes, cheese and mousetraps—but not mouse brains. Their camera does not take pictures of its own lens. But we, as humans, can look at a [seemingly bizarre image](http://www.richrock.com/gifs/optical-illusion-wheels-circles-rotating.png), and realize that part of what we’re seeing is the lens itself. > -Yudkowsky 2007 https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5g5TkQTe9rmPS5vvM/p/46qnWRSR7L2eyNbMA