Sensory illusions that serve daily life mislead us about cosmic and quantum scales

Evidence

But were we to rely on these illusions to travel beyond our planet, to the macrocosm out there, we would be literally lost in space. Equally, when we peer deep into the world of the subatomic particles that comprise our own body, or the chair we are sitting on, even the link between cause and effect vanishes. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 84

Categorization

• XREF: Sets up the analogy pattern the book will use — local-scale truths failing at macro scale — connecting to how the author likely analogizes microeconomics vs macroeconomy. — connects to: Flat Earth arguments rest on naive sensory and gravitational misconceptions — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice: How to Communicate…, 51; Illusions that ground action are real, second realities; Human vision is probabilistic inference, not faithful recording of light — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 58

Broader Connections

• Flat Earth arguments rest on naive sensory and gravitational misconceptions #exemplifies (0.82) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 51
• Illusions that ground action are real, second realities #qualifies (0.78)
• Human vision is probabilistic inference, not faithful recording of light #complicates (0.75) — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof, 58