Principle 1: There is always another point of view
Our minds are capable of organising the same input in very different ways. To illustrate this principle have a look at the famous optical illusion below. What do you see?
Some of you will see an old lady with a beaked nose and a downcast gaze. Others will instantly recognise the illustration as that of a young woman with her head turned away from the viewer.
Keep looking and you will be able to make the image morph from one to the other, although it is not possible to ‘see’ both versions simultaneously. In selecting one interpretation our mind excludes the other.
So what has changed? Certainly ...
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