Yeah, I was really disappointed to learn it too. It was blatant – the entire script is ripped from a well-written article about the experience, verbatim except for a few words swapped around.
This would be easier to parse with a monospaced font. I’m not sure how that works in lemmy so this might take an edit or two…
<span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">round 1: L L L L R R R R — — — -
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">round 2: L L R R R — — — L R L -
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">round 3: L R R — — L R — L L — R```
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Yes, but eyes and other sensory organs are passive observers. You can only see photons if they’ve already been reflected in your direction, and whether you’re looking has no impact on if they are reflected or not.
Feels like a kind of “if a tree falls in a forest” scenario. Whether your eyes were in the way or not makes no difference.