We tend to trust our eyes. “If I see it, I will believe it.”
We tend to trust eyewitnesses to a crime or other event. “Were you there? Did you see it?” Are our challenges to folks when they make a claim.
The reality, however, is that our perception, our memory, and our biases–and those of others–work against us to recall with precision events that we see.
This article in Scientific American provides a good overview of the subject.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-it
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