They are illusions.

它们其实是幻觉。

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It they are illusions, how do we account for the photographs?

如果是幻觉，那些照片该怎样解释呢？

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We all know what people can and can't do, how they are built, what the limits of the human body are, yet some images challenge the brain and create illusions.

因为我们知道人类能做什么，不能做什么，也知道人类的构造是怎样的，人类身体的极限在哪里，所以，这些图像的确是对人智力的挑战，它们会让人产生不可思议的幻觉。

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And there are some philosophers and psychologists who do just that, who claim that free will and responsibility and spiritual value and intrinsic value are all illusions; they're pre-scientific notions that get washed away in modern science or you could try to reconcile them.

一些哲学家和心理学家便是如此,他们认为,自由意志,责任,精神价值,内在价值,这些都是幻象,都是些前科学的概念,应当从现代科学中清洗出去,或者你可以试着将二者调和

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