There's a strong atmosphere of magic realism in the book, which features a woman who can see other people's memories, a spider whose bite "reduces the human soul to its rarest elements, stripping away all that is false, illusory or fearful," and an ancient Egyptian amulet that "depicts the far side of the moon as only someone orbiting the moon could have viewed it".
The apparent objectivity and independence of the human mind has repeatedly been proven to be a false, illusory chimera, which only leads to self-deception.
Schacter's research interests include analyses of memory, amnesia, and consciousness; the nature of memory distortion and the brain mechanisms underlying false or illusory memories; emotional influences on memory; and how memory is used to imagine or simulate possible future events.
Any attempt to articulate something as ultimately real tends to fall into a split between reality and the changing phenomenal world, making the latter false or illusory.
No significant difference was observed in brain responses to false or illusory recollection between sleep and sleep deprivation conditions.
Interestingly, in situations that do encourage false or illusory memories we have not found schizophrenic patients to be disproportionately susceptible as compared to control participants (e.g., false recognition paradigm; Elvevåg et al. (2002); unpublished data).
False perspectives and illusory architecture question the nature of reality but his most surreal stunt was putting a line of blue tape over everything.
First, the thrust of the view is not that distinctions are "unreal," in the sense of being illusory, false, or merely an aspect of appearance, not underlying reality.
Conventional truth is like seeing falling hairs as a result of cataracts: both conventional truth and such false seeing are illusory, in the ontological sense that there is nothing to which each corresponds, and in the epistemological sense that there is no true knowledge in either case.
The movement of the lightweight veil admits of the chicanery of ghosts, the manufacture of false images and illusory or misstated motions.
When he escapes the building and enters the mall, Hall feels he is disturbed by advertisements calling to him by name not only because they will give away his presence, but also because they remind him of his lost place in society, and he begins "to see through the false consciousness his (illusory) previous position as fixed subject had allowed him".
