As per a new study conducted by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the visual system of human beings has got the ability to foresee the future. In this study, Assistant Professor Mark Changizi points out that all it takes the brain to perceive what the eye is seeing is one tenth of a second. It is in order to make up for such neural delays, Mark Changizi underscores that our visual system has generated the capability to perceive what will happen in the next one tenth of a second.

 

To justify the ‘perceiving-the-present’ hypothesis, Mark Changizi has categorically segregated and explained over 50 kinds of visual illusions that happen only because the human mind is trying to know the happenings of the near future. Changizi says illusions happen as the brain wants to perceive the future which is why they appear different from reality. Mark Changizi says that a lot of success has been achieved as far as discovering and documenting visual illusions is concerned. He adds that comparatively lesser success has been achieved in organizing these visual illusions and that it is towards this end that his whole research is focused.