Austere Illusions

Hypnotic Illusions

Japan s Beheaded Illusions

Turkey s Lost Illusions

Illusions of Depth

We harbour no illusions.

Let's be under no illusions.

Or The Tomb of Illusions .

Illusions can be very powerful.

As far as illusions go,

Leave me my illusions, please.

So I want to show you some cognitive illusions, or decision making illusions, in the same way.

Moreover, I am completely without illusions.

I returned an optimist, but without illusions.

Well, there goes another of my illusions.

Go on. Have you read Lost Illusions?

Beau Lotto Optical illusions show how we see

Are we the only ones that see illusions?

They said, By God, you still persist in your illusions!

They said, By God, you still persist in your illusions!

I don't believe in your hopes and in your illusions.

Here is another one this is one of my favorite illusions.

I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.

Now, Hugo was another interesting movie, because the movie itself is about film illusions.

Which means we can bring all this information together to create some incredibly strong illusions.

To negotiate with Syria for peace, though without illusions as to the probability of success.

We, however, entertain no illusions about the difficulty we will experience in meeting these Goals.

I don't think any of us have any illusions about her character, have we, Devlin?

You will too, when you see your own folly, and the triviality of your illusions.

And then I'm going to finish up with another example of this with audio auditory illusions.

56. Greece seemed to have mastered the art of formulating policies based on illusions and distortions.

They brought with them their ideals, their knowledge, their hopes, their ambitions, their illusions and their contradictions.

So the type of magic I like, and I'm a magician, is magic that uses technology to create illusions.

So the type of magic I like, and I'm a magician, is a magic that uses technology to create illusions.

In the ink spot test about 80 of the people will in general see the same figure, the same illusions.

All right, now I'm going to show you some designers who work with illusions to give that element of surprise. One of my favorites is Scott Kim. I worked with Scott to create some illusions for TED that I hope you will enjoy. We have one here on TED and happiness.

So, illusions are often used, especially in art, in the words of a more contemporary artist, to demonstrate the fragility of our senses.

Because in visual illusions we can easily demonstrate the mistakes in cognitive illusion it's much, much harder to demonstrate to people the mistakes.

BERLIN For far too long, the West has harbored illusions about Vladimir Putin s Russia illusions that have now been shattered on the Crimean peninsula. The West could (and should) have known better Ever since his first term in office as Russian president, Putin s strategic objective has been to rebuild Russia s status as a global power.

Now, I'm going to skip ahead since I'm sort of running behind . I want to show you quickly what I've created, some new type of illusions. I've done something with taking the Pixar type illusions. So you see these kids the same size here, running down the hall. The two table tops of the same size.

Thus all the pressures against the Government of Serbia or Yugoslavia are unfounded and unacceptable, since they can only encourage those who have unrealistic and dangerous goals and illusions.

Three illusions are responsible for the German public s growing aversion to European integration and for many Germans failure to understand that Germany has the most to lose from the euro s collapse.

Al Seckel, a cognitive neuroscientist, explores the perceptual illusions that fool our brains. Loads of eye tricks help him prove that not only are we easily fooled, we kind of like it.

They're the ones that are embedded in that sea of dark matter that are causing the bending of the light to cause these optical illusions, or mirages, practically, of the background galaxies.

The illusions harboured after the end of the cold war are now giving way to a contrasting vision in which the factors of integration and disintegration in our world are becoming clearer.