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by 2OEH8eoCRo0 288 days ago
And the brain does sensor fusion to build a 3d model that we perceive. We don't perceive in 2d

There are other sensors as well. Is the inner ear a 2d sensor?

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Inner ear is a great example! I mentioned in another comment that if you want to be reductive the sensors in the inner ear - the hairs themselves - are one dimensional, but the overall sense is directly three dimensional. (In a way it's six dimensional since it includes direct information about angular momentum, but I don't think it actually has six independent degrees of freedom. E.g. it might be hard to tell the difference between spinning right-side-up and upside-down with only the inner ear, you'll need additional sense information.)