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by LocalH 1553 days ago
> Any brain filtering would have to affect the photos as well, even if it was true.

Not when the dynamic range of reality is much greater than that of photographs, and your visual system is one of the best visual processors in existence. It’s like reducing a 24-bit image to 16-bit - the image is “good enough” to identify the subject, but it is quite lossy. Photography itself is a lossy process.