"And better than your eyes, too, but aren't pictures lower definition even than human eyes?"

"I think so? But I think human eyes work sort of differently because it tries to generate a smooth image from the cell activation, so it's not quite the same as pixels on a camera." Shrug. "I'm not sure why my eyes would count as lower 'data' unless the fact they can – uh, maybe – be fooled by optical illusions messes with things?"

"Can they?"

"That is actually why I added 'uh, maybe' – and I'm not sure if we can test it with typical ones because the fact I can see in greater detail might mess with them." Shrug. "Should probably check, though!"

"I'm sure you can find arbitrarily complex ones on the internet."

"Right but the pixel density might be low enough that it screws with the illusion – I think a few of them at least wouldn't work if you separated them up." Shrug. "I can try one of the 'look at something long enough, it disappears, see a negative of it' ones? Or see if there are ones I can replicate off the computer."

"Yep, do that. ...you probably got much better at drawing, too, didn't you."

"Uh, probably but I haven't actually tried? I wasn't terrible before but like, now I should be able to pick out what looks wrong in it more accurately, not mess up the lines, that sort of thing."

He pauses for the alarm, then goes ahead and tries a negative optical illusion thing, off Google! – It totally fails to have the typical result, and he reports as such.

"Okay, that one fails to work but maybe just because your eyes are better—maybe if you try doing it for longer?"

He tries! He tries it for a whole five minutes and then looking away and– nope. "Unless it's doing something and I just don't notice? But I'd expect to be able to see the negative, if one were there – I did this before, when I was human."

"Well, yeah, but if your eye cells are more resistant to stuff..."

"Mm, I mean, I'm pretty sure it's actually not doing anything, not that I'm just getting confused." Shrug. "We haven't actually tested my durability to wounds that much, just that I reheal? I am stronger, yeah, otherwise I'd expect a more jarring impact when I, like, run and stuff, but I'm not clear how much more nor if it extends to my senses or, like, general skin."

"Those are more quantitative questions, though, and I don't wanna get there yet. How about other illusions, then?"

He looks at the one with the weird black-and-white strips that look to be diagonal despite being perfectly horizontal – "Uh, I think this one might be working? Not much, though, and it sort of stops if I look at it carefully."

"Try drawing it?"

"The illusion?" he asks.

"Yeah."

So he grabs some paper and a pencil and does so!

It's quite a good copy, but you can only make the optical illusion so good with paper and pencil. The lines are pretty straight seeing as how he didn't use a ruler, though, and it seems to work.

"Better than on the computer?"

"A little, but that was only really working when I was squinting and unfocusing my eyes anyway." Shrug. "This does about the same just without that."

"Okay. Hmm, try drawing, like, a transparent cube?"

He does! "Okay, yeah, I get the weird double vision thing with this."

"Seems consistent with having just generally better eyes. Why are we talking about this again?"

"I speculated that my eyes and memory don't count for as much data as cameras because they can be fooled by optical illusions."

"Oh, right. Hmm, well, I guess that's true but sounds weird."