What are the four illusions? Racial illusion, cave illusion, market illusion, theater illusion. These four kinds of illusions, one after another, one after another, firmly imprison human beings in the shadow of illusions, and they can only struggle and cannot escape.
Racial illusion, that is, the natural illusion brought by the racial characteristics of "people", "people are the measure of everything", because what we think, think and feel depends on the feedback brought by our sensory organs. "When you didn't see this flower, it died with you; When you come to see this flower, the color of this flower will be understood for a while. This is the case. Although idealistic words seem absurd, what's the difference between what people can't feel, what they can't see, what they can't touch and what they can't smell? Like an elephant turned into air, it looks like air, smells like air, and even people walk by it like air. Isn't this a mass of air? But when we count the number of elephants, we will find that there is always an "air" elephant missing. This is the deception caused by racial illusion.
The illusion of caves is the shackles brought by human experience and thinking. Everyone needs to learn, have their own feelings, have their own preferred theories, and have annoying people, that is, there is a prejudice that unconsciously restricts people's development and exploration. There is a saying that "reading for you" is a terrible drug, one of the reasons is. The preconceived experience has imprisoned people's thinking of spontaneous exploration and deviated from people's thinking angle. Facing a big mountain, only a few trees and a stream can be seen, which is mistaken for a dense forest. The illusion that people bring to themselves is like a cave dug by people, from which they cannot extricate themselves.
Market illusion is an illusion born in a group. People need to communicate, and only the collision of ideas can bring the extension of innovation, but ideas themselves cannot be transmitted, and language or words are needed as carriers. However, the inefficiency and vagueness of language and writing itself make thoughts distorted like light in a mirror. Language is an inefficient way of communication. The biggest problem is that the previous education and study created an experience circle, which led to almost natural differences in language understanding. In this differentiated communication, the original intention of thought is misled and distorted. Just like a game that everyone has played, a row of people pass a sentence, and what the first person says is often very different from what the last person hears. In one-to-one communication, even a deviation of one ten thousandth of each link will become extraordinarily large after a long enough transmission. The communication error projects this market illusion on the mind.
Finally, the illusion of the theater. This is an illusion from knowledge itself. What we see, hear and read may be the source of this illusion. Just like people are watching a play, even if you know it is a play for entertainment, the fictional illusion of drama will still affect your mood and thinking, not to mention the countless "dramas" that pervade the world, which we can't prepare at all. These news, public events and knowledge structure, whether true or false, spontaneous or directed, are all working together, creating a huge illusion for us. Frontal lobectomy has always been regarded as an inhuman operation. Patients who have their frontal lobes removed can be described as walking dead, but moniz, the founder of the operation, won the Nobel Prize in Medicine from 65438 to 0949. This operation is widely used to treat mental patients. Ironically, even many mental patients and their families think this is a "good" treatment and do not blame them. No one can understand what he has no concept. Just like people who have been devout believers in "the divine right of monarchy" for thousands of years, public opinion and knowledge brainwash together to create real illusions and make falsehood a conventional reality.
The theory of four illusions covers almost all fields of thought. Instinct, experience and knowledge are unreliable, and even thought and logic themselves are not necessarily reliable. Man is like a prisoner, struggling in the cage of imaginary structure. But in such a cage, human society is still moving forward. Maybe this shows that progress itself doesn't need to be perfect, just that we are more right than wrong?