A Slow Impossible Mirror Picture. (December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Casati, Roberto; Varzi, Achille C.
• Is Part Of: Perception. Volume 49:Number 12(2020)
• Page Start: 1375
• Page End: 1378
• Publication Date: 2020-12
• Subjects: impossible picture -- hole -- mirror image -- perceptual reasoning; Perception -- Periodicals; Perception -- Periodicals; Perception; Periodicals; 153.705
• DOI: 10.1177/0301006620967882
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0301-0066

Abstract

A new type of impossible picture is presented and described. The picture involves an object along with its reflection in a plane mirror, delivering two apparently irreconcilable views of the object itself when seen simultaneously in its flesh and in the mirror. Contrary to other, more familiar impossible pictures, its interpretation requires explicit reasoning about the represented reality. It is a slow impossible picture.