Do you see red here?

Look again.
There are no red pixels at all — only blue, black, and white.

Yet your mind says: “Of course it’s red, it’s Coca-Cola.”

That’s the trick.
This is the Expectation Gap at work:

👉 Expectation − Received Signal = Intelligence.

What People Think / The Surprise

Our mind insists on seeing red, because Coca-Cola is always red. Memory and expectation override raw vision.

The Science

This illusion works because the brain fills perceptual gaps. The visual cortex relies on context and past knowledge to complete missing signals. The result: we “see” what isn’t physically there.

The CI Lens (from Intelligence is Equal To?)

It is the raw difference between the human dream + imaginative core and the machine’s pure measurement. A perfect reconstruction from memory and context.

Humans: fill the gap with memory and imagination.
Machines: measure only pixels. 

👉 What we see, machines can never see — no illusion.

Now the deeper question: if we can have visual illusions,
✨ Do we also have emotional illusions?— From “Intelligence is Equal To?”