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How do we know that our perspective of the orientation of the universe isn't upside down?
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∙ 11y ago
We don't actually see things right side up!
At least, not from the start.
From birth, our eyesight is limited to rudimentary shapes and colors.
As we age, or brains begin to associate colors and shapes with recurring themes, such as the face of a parent.
When a baby fixes on a parent's face, the brain sets a parameter that says "this is how Momma looks", and for awhile after that, Momma's face has to be upright to be recognized.
As the child ages and the brain matures, the brain associates all the things it sees as upright or vertical, and "normal".
The child will play with it's vision by bending over to see things upside down, and recognizes the world is completely wrong when seen that way.
This is not a normal world view and is recognized as such.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 12y agoAs a result of the shape of the human eye lens, the images projected onto the retina('screen' of the eyeball, so to speak) are upside down. However, we do not see the world upside down because our brain correctly interprets it and makes all images the right side up.
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∙ 11y agoThe difference between up and down is based only on our personal perception of the Earth's gravity. In truth space has no up and down. But it's a rule of space travel films that when two alien spacecraft meet, they are both oriented the same way up :).
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