unconscious inferences

After class and our little science experiments with optical illusions I decided I needed to know more. As it turns out, I retained very little knowledge from high school science. The short of it is that optical illusions are unconscious inferences that our brain makes. In its attempt to make sense of what we are seeing out brain puts things together that it might not otherwise. Basically, optical illusions aren't real but our brain interprets them as being true. I found the definition of "unconscious inferences" to be especially important because I feel as though this is something our brain is always doing and not just with illusions. For me, unconscious inferences in illusions, translated to prejudices in every day life. We are constantly making judgments on things we have been conditioned to feel one way or another about. What's unsettling about this is that this tendency may be hard wired into our brains. It makes sense though, when our brain sees something it can't naturally understand, it mashes things together in an attempt to comprehend. I feel like this works in a few ways. The illusions can be pleasing or not and much like what we see everyday we generally find distaste or acceptance in it because of how are brain interprets and makes sense of it. And in that way, life is just an illusion.