Edited sentence: "Evolution has seen to it that geometric drawings like this elicit in us premonitions of the near future.Changizi asserts that the human visual system has evolved to compensate for neural delays, generating images of what will occur one-tenth of a second into the future.Chnagizi said:.For example, one illusion called the Hering illusion, looks like bike spokes around a central point, with vertical lines on either side of this central, so-called vanishing point.Illusions occur when our brains attempt to perceive the future, and those perceptions don't match reality.Researcher Mark Changizi of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York says optical illusions are due to a neural lag which most humans experience while awake.Scientists have known of the lag, yet they have debated over how humans compensate, with some proposing that our motor system somehow modifies our movements to offset the delay.Since we aren't actually moving and the figure is static, we misperceive the straight lines as curved ones.The converging lines toward a vanishing point (the spokes) are cues that trick our brains into thinking we are moving forward - as we would in the real world, where the door frame (a pair of vertical lines) seems to bow out as we move through it - and we try to perceive what that world will look like in the next instant.The illusion tricks us into thinking we are moving forward, and thus, switches on our future-seeing abilities.This allows humans to perform reflexive acts like catching a fly ball and to maneuver smoothly through a crowd.This foresight enables human to react to events in present.When light hits the retina, about one-tenth of a second goes by before the brain translates the signal into a visual perception of the world