We are also under the illusion that we simply open our eyes and—we see. A bird chirps outside the window and we instantly hear. Sensory perception creates mental images in our minds—representations of the world outside our heads—so quickly and seamlessly that it seems there is nothing to it. This is an illusion. Our perceptions are the end product of a long chain of neural events that give us the illusion of an instantaneous image. There are many domains in which our strongest intuitions mislead us. The flat earth is one example. The intuition that our senses give us an undistorted view of the
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