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I was definitely interested in the idea of conflicted brain images and some of the cues artists use to "trick" the brain into thinking the flat strokes are actually 3-d. What I wonder is why photographs don't appear as 3-d images to us. I guess they do in a way, but it seems strange to be able to take a moment that is so obviously real life and 3-dimensional and be able to depict it on a flat photograph. Why doesn't our nervous system interpret this at 3-d since we know what these people actually look like in real life? 

Also, is there a certain brain wiring that causes us to see one image before another in an ambiguous figure? It seems strange that the class would be so divided as to what they saw first on the images that were displayed in class. Sometimes it took me awhile to actually see the second image; does this have to do with me as an individual? 

Our discussion on Thursday also brought up an excellent point about imagination and how this is necessary for further progressing our society in terms of technology, etc. I don't think I find it as unnerving as I should that our brains don't actually see reality precisely for the fact that because of this, it makes it possible to imagine things that could otherwise never exist.