Necker cube
noun
A line drawing of a transparent cube, with opposite sides drawn parallel, so that the perspective is ambiguous.A Necker cube is an ambiguous object, which is to say that there is more than one way to see it, and our brains happily jump between these different views, trying one and then switching to another....
- Although he could make hypotheses (about his wife's head or the glove) - as indeed we do when looking at the Necker cube, he could not make judgements about those things.
- According to Dawkins genic selection and organismic selection are like two interpretations of a Necker cube illusion.
Origin
Early 20th century: named after L. A. Necker (1786–1861), Swiss naturalist.
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