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So they're experts at creating the illusion of a free choice.
This is an illusion.
We've surrendered our power, trading off our discomfort with uncertainty for the illusion of certainty that they provide.
It allows you to create the illusion of competence, the illusion of simplicity, and most destructively, the illusion of understanding.
You might think that if it's true, that for each one of us there is no abiding core of self, no permanent essence, does that mean that really, the self is an illusion?
Well, a lot of people actually do use this talk of illusion and so forth.
These are three psychologists, Thomas Metzinger, Bruce Hood, Susan Blackmore, a lot of these people do talk the language of illusion, the self is an illusion, it's a fiction.
The watch isn't an illusion, because there is nothing to the watch other than a collection of its parts.
But it doesn't mean that the Iguazu Falls are an illusion.
What creates the illusion?
Sometimes the perspective is the illusion.
So I think when you say you can't draw, that's just an illusion, and today I'd like to prove that to you.
And a few philosophers and mystics might argue that even our own universe is an illusion.
And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.
It's a cognitive illusion that we've been studying in my lab for the past few years, and 80 percent of us have it.
And at this point we stopped and we asked ourselves, would we want to shatter the optimism illusion into tiny little bits?
But the good news is that becoming aware of the optimism bias does not shatter the illusion.
So, as I say before the last piece, feel not as though it is a sphere we live on, rather an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin.
As a magician, I'm always interested in performances that incorporate elements of illusion.
It used mirrors to create the illusion of tiny people performing on a miniature stage.
You can see a different column in the mirror, if there's a mirror behind the column that creates a sort of an optical illusion.
As a cyber-magician, I combine elements of illusion and science to give us a feel of how future technologies might be experienced.
So these are my illusion glasses.
There's a cognitive illusion.
Now a fourth factor really becomes an obsession, which is, never betray the illusion.
One of the smartest things Conor did, from the very beginning, was to create the illusion that I was the dominant partner in the relationship.
And we make a mathematical model of those relationships and program them into a tablet computer so that when you take the stylus and go and touch the screen, that voice-coil actuator in the white bracket plays vibrations to give you the illusion that you're touching the real surface, just like if you touched, dragged back and forth, on the real canvas.
But the Great Recession in 2007 and 2008, the great crash, broke this illusion.
This is a measure of global overvaluation of all markets, expressing what I call an illusion of a perpetual money machine that suddenly broke in 2007.
And so Oonagh hatched a cunning plan - they needed to create an illusion of size, to suggest Finn was a mountain of a man whilst keeping him out of sight.
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