Illusion

Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

I’m fascinated by visual illusions. They challenge our everyday notion that the world is as we see it. Richard Dawkins has a great chapter in Unweaving the Rainbow which explores how our mind processes visual data to manage what we see. He suggests that in one sense we already live in a kind of virtual reality.

So this new blog is worth a look: Illusion Sciences

Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan

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