Everything is not what it seems, even the brain can deceive its own master. When brain plays a trick on us, we will not believe anything even with the evidence right before our eyes. In the Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, the authors inform the readers about the illusions that can happen in the daily life. Also, how to noticing about these illusions before making an unforgivable mistake. These illusions are related to how our brain and memory system work. The book will mention about six illusions, experiments, and some others example that related to these illusions. Which also include different methods that people have been trying to make everyone to be more aware of these illusions. The purpose of The Invisible
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In everyday life, people fail to see something that can later cause them to get in trouble or even fatal. There is a fact that the authors mentioned in chapter 1, about how there are many accidents related to motorcycles happened because of the illusion of attention. The motorcycles are not commonly used in the United States. So, many car drivers do not expect to see a motorcycle when they are driving, and because of this reason they fall for the illusion of attention (14). In the past news, there was a new about a woman got hit by a train because she had her headphone on with loud music. The headphone and high volume stopped her from listening to the sound of the train that is coming right at her. This is significant because she was only paying attention to her phone and music instead of her surrounding, which leads to her death is an example of the illusion of attention. The significant of this illusion is to show how dangerous the illusion of attention can affect our life and the life of people around us. If the society understands more about this illusion, then the accidents that can take away people life will be minimized. Because people will be more ready to expect the unexpected events to happen. In addition, even though the illusion of attention can be fatal sometimes, however, it is not the most important illusion in this
In everyday life, people fail to see something that can later cause them to get in trouble or even fatal. There is a fact that the authors mentioned in chapter 1, about how there are many accidents related to motorcycles happened because of the illusion of attention. The motorcycles are not commonly used in the United States. So, many car drivers do not expect to see a motorcycle when they are driving, and because of this reason they fall for the illusion of attention (14). In the past news, there was a new about a woman got hit by a train because she had her headphone on with loud music. The headphone and high volume stopped her from listening to the sound of the train that is coming right at her. This is significant because she was only paying attention to her phone and music instead of her surrounding, which leads to her death is an example of the illusion of attention. The significant of this illusion is to show how dangerous the illusion of attention can affect our life and the life of people around us. If the society understands more about this illusion, then the accidents that can take away people life will be minimized. Because people will be more ready to expect the unexpected events to happen. In addition, even though the illusion of attention can be fatal sometimes, however, it is not the most important illusion in this