How do strobing lights induce seizures?

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How do strobing lights induce seizures?

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Epilepsy, in its many forms boils down to a wildfire of electric pulses in a certain part of the brain, or completely. This is akin to throwing water on a bunch of electric cables as the electricity will go haywire. If a particular brain is sensitive, flashing light could overload a certain circuit and cause the short.

This is of course an enormous generalisation