What Happens if Your Eyes didn't Flip Images in the Brain? Would You See Up-Side Down?

Question

Your Brain Flip images, what happens if whatever flips the images producing a right side up image, was removed or diabled... Would you see Up Side Down

Answer 1

The idea that the brain is "flipping" the image is just a misunderstanding. There is no "flipping."

Because of how lenses work, we know that the image is inverted in the retina. But the brain doesn't care. It doesn't have to "flip" it. It just process the image as it is. We learn within months of birth which end of the image corresponds to "down" and which corresponds to "up".

Answer 2

You would see upside down, yes.

There is an easy experiment to do to prove this. You can get goggles with lenses that flip what you see upside-down. After a few days, your brain will recognize that something isn't right, and will correct by flipping your site. Now, even with the goggles, you see normally. Remove the goggles and guess what... upside down again!

If the mechanism in your brain that did this was disabled, then you would certainly see things upside down.

Answer 3

You do see up-side down when you are physically up-side down! In relation to your anatomy your eyes are seeing, e.g. the floor at the top of your eye/closer to eye brow when you are up-side down.

Your body "knows" where up is because of gravity!

Answer 4

Here's a link to some historical experiments about that very thing.


http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/mar97/858984531.Ns.r.html

Answer 5

Actually, we do see everything upside down, but because we have always seen everything that way, we accept it as normal. It only looks upside down if we stand on our heads.

Answer 6

Yes. Everything would be topsey-turvey.

Answer 7

that would be too bad