was talking to an audio engineer one day...he gave us a tour of the studio that type of thing...and we were watching a film clip of a song. At one point in the track the camera zoomed in on a campfire (this was not finished IIRC) and it did not seem right.
anyway, it turned out that for the finished product you needed to ADD *that* amount of fire noise to the video! Ie, not in the song as far as I know, but for the video it is needed. He mentioned the same thing has to happen when you watch a classical concert on video, if you have a close up of the solo violin you need to emphasise that bit slightly for it to be correct in the video.
No doubt I am butchering a lot of what he was saying, twas a while ago now, but it seems to dovetail into what you just mentioned.
I'm still pondering why we trade one set of 'truth' and 'reality' for another, just why we would rather believe the girls actually change size. What I reckon is important about this experiment is it shows us just how much our evolution was centred around survival, the need to act NOW. (purely my own musings)
If we were more like a 'computer' say, then when confronted with this situation we'd get an 'error message'...this does not make sense so I will give back nothing till we have enough data.
That however would not tie in very well with staying alive, so due to that need or urge the brain HAS to give us something, we cannot afford to be in some sort of ambivalent state.
That the room is a certain way takes precedence is still interesting. it leads to wondering just what the heirarchy is we have for reality?? What concept is top dog and can never be questioned, what is next down and so on.
I can imagine, for example, that one of our most basic datums is the 'solidity and unchanging' nature of the earth we walk on. And so extrapolating from that, I can also imagine that an earthquake would be an extremely profound and disturbing experience, much more so than other natural phenomena like storms or fire etc, which may be equally damaging in the material sense...yet far less damaging psychologically. After all we KNOW that winds can blow hard..yet for most of us the earth never is less than stable, something that is FIXED.
Just one way of wondering how the phenomenon shown in the video may play out in the real world.