Fechner’s colors

illusory sensations of color that arise when a disk with black and white sectors is spun about its axis. The appearance of these subjective colors is widely believed to be governed by local interactions in early, and likely retinal, mechanisms. See also Benham’s top. [Gustav Theodor Fechner]

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February 17th 2025

panacea

n. a solution or remedy for everything that is wrong with a given problem or that universally applies to a set of related problems.