The illusion of attention is ta mistaken belief that a lot of us have, and that we really take in everything in our world when we look out at the world around us. So it's one of several illusions we discuss in the book. And by allusions, we mead cognitive illusions to cases in which the way we think about our mind turns out to be wrong. When asked if your mind works like a video camera accurately recording the worldstha, you can play it back in the review later,. More than two thirds of people thing left, that's right.