Ten This is what she said: We think we know ourselves. But then I look in the mirror and the person looking back at me is not me but a reflection of me. And I am surprised by my appearance. Surely that’s not me, I think. And then I remember that the mirror tricks me by reflecting my left side as my right side and my right side as my left side. And then I remember that the retinas of the eyes with which I look at myself in the mirror invert the things I see so that all is upside down. And then I remember that my brain makes an adjustment and reinverts received images so that things appear right-way up. And then I remember that the eye can only see if there is a light source. So then I realise that I was correct all along—what I see is NOT me. And when I look at others, I am not really see

