The multi-billion dollar international television and film
industry would not be possible without an inherent developmental flaw found in
the brain of every single human being, including you. I know that was a harsh
way to tell you that you are inherently flawed but I thought you should know
sooner or later.
This flaw is called the “persistence of vision” and causes
our brain to mesh consecutive images together instead of seeing them separately
as they really are. When our eyes transmit a signal to our brain, that image is
held onto in our brains milliseconds longer than the actual signal is present.
What that means is when we have two images presented before our eyes in a fast
enough progression we will see the images as one fluid motion.
