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Illusion in sentence

459 examples of Illusion in a sentence

It's an illusion, like sunsets.
So consciousness is an illusion.
You see, the distinction between reality and illusion is the distinction between how things consciously seem to us and how they really are.
You cannot get rid of it by showing that it's an illusion in a way that you can with other standard illusions.
Well, the first one I said was, consciousness doesn't exist, it's an illusion.
However, to many who live in the emerging markets, this is an illusion, and even though the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was signed in 1948, was unanimously adopted, what it did was to mask a schism that has emerged between developed and developing countries, and the ideological beliefs between political and economic rights.
At all times, I can operate at a different rhythm and pace from you, while I sustain the illusion that I'm tapped into you in real time.
Sandy was a reminder of how such an illusion can shatter.
For some reason, technology seems to perpetuate the illusion for those who have it that everyone does, and then, like an ironic slap in the face, it makes it true.
Now, one way of persuading humans that robots are safe is to create the illusion of trust.
It's all part of the illusion, Marco.
MT: Magic creates the illusion of an impossible reality.
Alan Turing, a pioneer of artificial intelligence, spoke about creating the illusion that a machine could think.
To create the robotic illusion, we've devised a set of ethical rules, a code that all robots would live by.
And now, under the spell of a technological illusion, we could ignore our fears and truly interact.
What I want to convince you today is that all of us are walking around with an illusion, an illusion that history, our personal history, has just come to an end, that we have just recently become the people that we were always meant to be and will be for the rest of our lives.
We call this the "end of history" illusion.
But back then, I noticed an intersection between puzzles and illusion.
And today, as a cruciverbalist — 23 points — and an illusion designer, I create that chaos.
The whole idea of the inner subjective movie involves a kind of illusion or confusion.
It helped us exaggerate what we were afraid of, and we seek causality where there is none, and we then get an illusion of confidence where we believe that we are the best car drivers, above the average.
And let me just end by showing one illusion here.
This must be some kind of optical illusion.
So, between Ponzo and Ebbinghaus, it seems like we've solved the mystery of the moon illusion, but, unfortunately, there are a few details that complicate things.
For one thing, if this was just the Ebbinghaus effect, then we would expect the moon illusion to disappear for pilots flying high above the clouds since there wouldn't be any other smaller objects near the horizon.
But in fact, pilots and sailors out on the ocean still claim to see the moon illusion.
On the other hand, if it's just our brain's autocorrecting the size of objects near the horizon, then we'd expect the moon illusion to be visible inside a planetarium, where the whole sky, including the horizon, is displayed on a spherical dome overhead.
To make matters worse, it seems the moon illusion disappears entirely if you just bend over and look at the moon between your legs.
Well, frankly, neither are many scientists, so the debate over the moon illusion still rages on and may continue as long as we still see it in the night sky.
The speech to song illusion captures how simply repeating a sentence a number of times shifts listeners attention to the pitch and temporal aspects of the sound, so that the repeated spoken language actually begins to sound like it is being sung.
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