Talk:Phi phenomenon

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Isn't this the basis of tv? a bunch of images being flashed on screen, each one slightly different then the last? there is no real motion non tv either, just us perceiving motion from rapid succession of still shots.

You're talking about the gif, I take it...Yeah, it is, as far as I can see. This is beta!

It's not exactly my area of specialization, but it seems pretty damn clear to me that it's not phi. The only "motion" I see is the brightened yellow disk moving around all over the place, so if this is a phi gif I need to contact my shrink and tell her I'm the only human being ever to see shapes in my phi. Really now...in an article whose gist, and rightly so, is how easily phi is confused with beta, wikipedia's illustration of what phi really is, is in fact a perfect illustration of beta? I'm deleting this B.S. before any more of America's famously vision-theory-obsessed teenagers get led astray by it, and we start losing out to the Communist kids who are getting their phi information from people who know what they're talking about.205.212.73.217 09:27, 31 May 2007 (UTC)