It doesn't quite land the same way to have to explain it long-form, but...
I remember learning years ago about an experiment some researchers did where they anesthetized some test subjects' eye muscles (don't remember how), bolted them into a frame so their heads couldn't move, and positioned mirrors above that could be moved with a handle.
What this test setup found was that as long as the mirrors were constantly moving (even just a tiny bit), the participants could generally speaking see completely normally. But as soon as the mirrors stopped moving, the participants reported that their vision fairly rapidly went completely grey.
(The ba-dum-tss here is the "completely reliable" in your comment... :D)
I don't think the optic system in the brain is the only aspect that is "change-stimulated". A bit of a pet theory is that a lot of thought processes are quite similar at the low (and not so low) level.
I'm hoping to come across that study at some point, just not sure what to Google.
I remember learning years ago about an experiment some researchers did where they anesthetized some test subjects' eye muscles (don't remember how), bolted them into a frame so their heads couldn't move, and positioned mirrors above that could be moved with a handle.
What this test setup found was that as long as the mirrors were constantly moving (even just a tiny bit), the participants could generally speaking see completely normally. But as soon as the mirrors stopped moving, the participants reported that their vision fairly rapidly went completely grey.
(The ba-dum-tss here is the "completely reliable" in your comment... :D)
I don't think the optic system in the brain is the only aspect that is "change-stimulated". A bit of a pet theory is that a lot of thought processes are quite similar at the low (and not so low) level.
I'm hoping to come across that study at some point, just not sure what to Google.