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		<title>In the Dark, Organizations See Eigengrau</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Try this tonight. Turn off the lights, close the curtains, and wait until the room is as dark as it gets. Then keep your eyes open and look into the darkness. You might expect to see black — complete absence, the visual equivalent of silence. But that is not what happens. Instead, a faint grey appears. No shapes, no contours, just a dim and uniform field hovering in front of your eyes. In German there is a word for this phenomenon: Eigengrau, literally »intrinsic grey.« It describes the subtle brightness we perceive even when no light reaches the eye. Vision science explains why. Even in complete darkness the retina does not fall silent. Photoreceptors continue to fire occasionally, neurons remain active, and the brain interprets this background activity as a minimal level of brightness. What we perceive, in other words, is not the world but the baseline activity of our own perceptual system. We never see pure darkness. We see Eigengrau. Noise: perception always starts with a baseline One of the central insights of perceptual &#8230;]]></description>
		
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