Ultimately, the book provides a kind of x-ray vision into our own minds, making it possible to pierce the veil of illusions that clouds our thoughts and to think clearly for perhaps the first time.From the Hardcover edition. Their mission: Retrieve a particularly dangerous book. The Invisible Library tells the story of Irene, a young woman who works for a mysterious library that collects precious books through many alternate realities and their librarians act like a kind of spy. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative London. collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Chabris and Simons explain why we succumb to these everyday illusions and what we can do to inoculate ourselves against their effects. Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that. The Invisible Gorilla reveals the myriad ways that our intuitions can deceive us, but it's much more than a catalog of human failings. And as a society, we spend billions on devices to train our brains because we're continually tempted by the lure of quick fixes and effortless self-improvement. We're sure we know where we were on 9/11, falsely believing that vivid memories are seared into our minds with perfect fidelity. We write traffic laws and build criminal cases on the assumption that people will notice when something unusual happens right in front of them.
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