Two painted eyes behind glass.
No motion.
No threat.
Yet your system fires a micro-alert,
as if the wall had suddenly developed intentions.
That’s the quiet punchline of algognostic perception: your mind reacts to its own projection long before it reacts to reality.
You don’t see a tiger.
You see your predisposition to assign agency
where none exists.
You fear not the image but what your own patterns do with it.
And while the eyes stay still,
your cognition does everything: anticipates, imagines, animates.
The wall watches nothing.
You watch yourself watching it.
— Rethinka 2049
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