Quotes About Illusion

Fishing: a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

While you spoke, it reached into the room switching off the mirrors in their frames and undeveloping your photographs; it gently drew a knife across the threads that tied your keepsakes to the things they kept

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

But if you build your life on dreams it's prudent to recall a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.

He recalls an old dicho— When the devil comes, he comes on angel's wings.

mirrors reveal so little

He prays at the altar of dead false gods. Tries to hold up an image of what he thinks used to be but in fact didn't exist except maybe in the movies. The fuckin' guy wants so bad to be something that never was, even the ghost image of which is now fading into black.

To construct is the essence of vision. Dispense with construction and you dispense with vision. Everything you experience by sight is your construction.

as Einstein put it 'Time and space are modes by which we think, and not conditions in which we live.

There are as many cubes as there are observers constructing cubes. And when you look away, your cube ceases to be.

If you play a video game on your computer, such as "Doom" or "Uncharted", you see compelling 3D worlds with 3D objects. Yet the information is entirely 2D, limited by the number of pixels on the screen. The same is true when you look away from your computer to the world around you. It too has pixels, and all the information is 2D.

The math is not the territory.

Steven Pinker sums up the argument well: "We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness."36

Nathan Seiberg of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton said, "I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.

A glimpse of an eye is, for purposes of triggering the animate-monitoring system, a glimpse of the beast peering through that eye.

Physics and evolution point to the same conclusion: spacetime and objects are not foundational. Something else is more fundamental, and spacetime emerges from it.

What we call 'reality,' consists of an elaborate papier-mâché construction of imagination and theory filled in between a few iron posts of observation."22 We

Perception is not a window on objective reality. It is an interface that hides objective reality behind a veil of helpful icons.

Once we know the rules that human vision uses to decode messages about fitness, we can use those rules to send the messages we want. Consider jeans.

Steven Pinker sums up the argument well: "We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness.

We encounter a startling "Fitness-Beats-Truth" (FBT) theorem, which states that evolution by natural selection does not favor true perceptions—it routinely drives them to extinction. Instead, natural selection favors perceptions that hide the truth and guide useful action.

A lady doctor in the foreground, black horn-rims and white lab coat, suddenly cried, "You people ought to be ashamed of yourselves! Do you realize what you're doing to the reality concepts we're trying to instill in these people? How do you expect them to differentiate between illusion and reality when you do something like this ?"

That's a geometric figure, that bird, he don't exist without an angle.