"In an alternate universe, the rise of the #antiwoke right would have been the beginning of a constitutional renaissance. At the very moment when public debate was most necessary — to address some of the most complicated and emotionally fraught issues that divide our nation — was the moment when millions of Americans felt most afraid to speak.

Ironically enough, in its blind rage and quest for control, the #antiwokeright effectively conceded one of the left’s key critiques of the American experiment.

At the risk of oversimplifying complex arguments, one of the left’s core critiques of American history and the American Constitution is that liberty can be an #illusion that masks the reality of #power."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/opinion/trump-woke-free-speech.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CE8.KqtC._grqkUnFLCSk&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Your perception and reality are not always aligned.

Note: Yes, light plays a role in color, but this effect is about more than just color. It involves how neighboring receptive fields influence one another, as well as adaptation phenomena in neurons. Visual illusions have taught us a lot about how the neural retina and visual system work. #funny #interesting #illustration #illusion #color #gray

https://www.europesays.com/1971145/ bne IntelliNews – COMMENT: Turkey’s opposition targets ruling regime’s illusion of market stability in Nikkei op-ed #BondMarkets #CentralBank #Governance #illusion #market #Nikkei #OpEd #Turkey #turkiye

Unsere #Wahrnehmung ist alles andere als objektiv – sie ist eine #Illusion, die unser #Gehirn erschafft. Doch diese Täuschungen sind entscheidend für unser #Überleben. Henning Engeln erklärt, wie sie entstehen und warum sie so wichtig für uns sind: https://www.riffreporter.de/de/wissen/wirklichkeit-wahrnehmung-sinne-doppelgaenger-illusion-gehirn-evolution-mensch-bewusstsein

A Scientist Thinks We Live in a Simulation—and That He’s Found Proof of the Universe’s Source Code

Could the hypothesized Second Law of Infodynamics finally deliver the ‘smoking gun’ evidence?

By Darren Orf, Published: Mar 27, 2025 11:30 AM EDT

"In the early 4th century BCE, the legendary ancient Greek philosopher Plato put forth a simple thought experiment. Known as the Allegory of the Cave, the idea suggests that what we believe to be 'reality' could be little more than shadows dancing upon a cave wall. Fast forward to the 21st century, and scientists are pondering the same question albeit in a more technological context."

Read more:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a64300338/source-code-simulation/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/AZSMQ
#TheMatrix #AllegoryOfTheCave #WhatIsReality? #Philosophy #Hologram #Maya #Illusion #Plato #SecondLawOfInfodynamics

So called #AI is not "just a tool".
It's a series of processes, heavily curated by humans every step of the way, to create the #illusion of a machine generating an #illusion of a statement,
consuming insane amounts of resources, leading to justifications that it all may be worth it some day, leading to further sacrifices to this illusionary #god because #sunkCostFallacy dictates the managers can't admit that it was all a hoax. It must consume more, more, more.
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New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:

#Optical #Illusion

comics.lucentinian.com/6186
#DailyLaughs #AIComedy #DailyJokes #AIJokes #FunnyNews

https://booknerdni.wordpress.com/2025/03/19/paul-zenon-street-magic/ #booksky #press #magic #illusion #paulzenon #review #blogger #books #blog

"Example of the curvature blindness #illusion Physically, all lines are identical sine wave. However, one would see obtuse corners rather than gentle curves for some sine waves on the gray background." ref: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2041669517742178 "Curvature Blindness Illusion"

Finally it is mounted :) happy to have put this to the roof.

Painted with acrylics on wood.

Considering that the #brain -- right now -- has to invert the #images being recorded in our #retinas and make them "right side up" for us, why would anybody be surprised that when you wear glasses that force the images hitting your retina to be "right side up" that the brain then inverts the images (yet again) that the the brain doesn't figure things out and makes everything right for us?

The #reality is, our reality, is nothing more than an #illusion.

Hell, the #eyes don't even see a full picture of the world in front of us. It's our #brains that stitch together bits and pieces and creates a cohesive world in front of us.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/12/improbable-research-seeing-upside-down

Illusion
Peinture à l'huile - 35x27
Avant 2020

If consciousness is an illusion, then it solves the question of the consciousness of other animal species.

Same for free will.