Through out time knowledge about optical illusions has been deepened by many different philosophers and researchers to strengthen the explanations of illusions. Epicharmus and Protagoras, Aristotle, and Plato are only some famous philosophers well known to this day that have contributed their own knowledge about, what actually are optical illusions?
Epicharmus is a Greek poet and inventor of Sicilian Comedy during 540 and 450 BC. He was one of the earliest to appreciate the concept of optical illusions. He deliberated about how illusions are a deceptive visual perception of what we see. Epicharmus also believed that our minds know and understand everything visibly. He said that the sensory organs deceive us and instead present us an optical …show more content…
He told a story about a few men who lived all their lives in a cave chained to pillars and could only see shadows on the caves walls by a fire that burned behind them. Eventually, one of the men escapes beyond the walls of the cave and discovers a new world. The men in the cave believed that they have been seeing only shadows (that was really only an illusion). The man who escapes is blinded by the reality of the world. After he spent some time in the real world he realized the illusions that are possessed in reality. In the story Allegory of The Cave, it also provides examples of illusions that the men are experiencing. For example from the book Allegory of The Cave, “As one of these prisoners escapes, they walk into the light to find that what he once saw in the cave was actually just an illusion of what the truth is.” This quote from the story illustrates the relationship of his life in the cave and in the real world. It represents the relationship between the cave and the real world showing how he was perhaps shielded by the reality of the real world (the illusion is cognitive-fiction, it’s not necessarily a visible
Epicharmus is a Greek poet and inventor of Sicilian Comedy during 540 and 450 BC. He was one of the earliest to appreciate the concept of optical illusions. He deliberated about how illusions are a deceptive visual perception of what we see. Epicharmus also believed that our minds know and understand everything visibly. He said that the sensory organs deceive us and instead present us an optical …show more content…
He told a story about a few men who lived all their lives in a cave chained to pillars and could only see shadows on the caves walls by a fire that burned behind them. Eventually, one of the men escapes beyond the walls of the cave and discovers a new world. The men in the cave believed that they have been seeing only shadows (that was really only an illusion). The man who escapes is blinded by the reality of the world. After he spent some time in the real world he realized the illusions that are possessed in reality. In the story Allegory of The Cave, it also provides examples of illusions that the men are experiencing. For example from the book Allegory of The Cave, “As one of these prisoners escapes, they walk into the light to find that what he once saw in the cave was actually just an illusion of what the truth is.” This quote from the story illustrates the relationship of his life in the cave and in the real world. It represents the relationship between the cave and the real world showing how he was perhaps shielded by the reality of the real world (the illusion is cognitive-fiction, it’s not necessarily a visible