Fake 8

This fake is the roof of the Fitzalan Chapel in the grounds of Arundel Castle, with this chapel being the Catholic eastern end of the otherwise proper & Anglican St. Nicolas Church, the greater part of which is on the town side of the castle wall. The main purpose of this eastern end being to house the tombs of members of the family in the big house, that is to say the Fitzalan-Norfolks, the temporal if not spiritual lords of the townsfolk. The head of the house also being the hereditary earl marshal of England - oddly, despite their being Catholics. But I digress.

The faking lies in the fact that the fancy fan vaulted roof, in brown wood, is a false roof, false ceiling if you will. It is real to the extent that it holds itself up, but false to the extent that the real roof, the roof which actually keeps the weather out, is an entirely separate structure, built on much the same lines as the roof of a suburban house, a few feet above what you see and enjoy here.

The brain takes pleasure in the sleight of hand which gives the impression of an integral structure, organised, held together and held up by the cunning arrangement of wooden ribs. Ribs which are decorated, but not so much as to hide their lines. A closed and comfortable space, with us inside and with the existence of the roof above the ceiling having usually vanished from consciousness - if it had ever got there in the first place.

As we will be talking about elsewhere, and have talked about at, for example, reference 1, this involves the brain building an elaborate data structure in which this picture is held, with the subjective experience, including the pleasure, arising from activation, in the form of high frequency oscillations, running around that structure, itself expressed in the form of low frequency oscillations.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/a-ship-of-line.html.

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