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I am still having a hard time accepting the fact that what we see is a construction of the brain and not physical reality. Maybe its difficult for me to conceive as I have never thought of reality being ambiguous with the nervous system trying to come up with the best story that satisfies simulataneously as many senses as possible. With the exercises on ambiguous figures in class, I could see both the skull and the lady looking at herself in the mirror, for example. Why when I look at a table, for example, do I only see a table? Is it the way that I interpret the table that is different from everyone else that makes the object ambiguous? I really want to understand, but at the moment my head is spinning!

With respect to the "I" function, could it possibly play a part once we have become aware of both images in the skull/woman picture for example? When I first looked at the picture, only the skull was apparent. However, later on I was able to perceive the woman looking at herself in the mirror. From then on, I was "aware" of both images.