From the Patriot Act to color-coded threat levels to bans on carry-on tweezers, these Band-Aid policies have shown no sign of a cohesive, reality-based strategy.
"Memory feels very cohesive, but in reality it's a reconstructive process," says Ramirez.
The brain, it seems, is a master at filling gaps and making do, of compiling a cohesive portrait of reality based on a flickering view.
As with the posterior cortical streams, these areas are extensively interconnected (Barbas and Pandya 1989), thus providing a cohesive experience of reality.
Importantly, this is a cohesive, coherent world.
Hulu's VR apps on PSVR and Daydream will understandably not be gaining any new functionality as Sony and Google have yet to show off any cohesive social strategies for virtual reality, so until then you'll have to enjoy your VR TV in isolation.
The ICG highlighted in November how, while an "alluring narrative of a successful counterinsurgency campaign has begun to take shape", the reality is that "Afghanistan still lacks a cohesive national security strategy and the Afghan military and police remain dangerously fragmented and highly politicised".
However, this cohesive, multi-racial military has not always been a reality.
The western world tends to think of Africa as a cohesive unit, while countries as close to each other as Egypt and Rwanda are in reality as diverse as Luxembourg is from Turkey.
This is the reality of modern American politics: a large and cohesive bloc of voters lives in an alternative reality, fed fake facts by Fox and Rush — whom they listen to out of tribal affiliation — and completely unaware that it's all fiction.
