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Your eyes send your brain an upside-down world

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You are essentially walking around interpreting a badly projected movie. Because the cornea is curved, the light entering your eye bends and hits the back of your retina completely inverted. Your visual cortex has to do real-time mental gymnastics to flip the image so you don't pour hot coffee on your own shoes.

Your eyes send your brain an upside-down world
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