Conductors serve to generate the illusion of novelty: as Theodor W. Adorno wrote, in his "Introduction to the Sociology of Music," the maestro "acts as if he were creating the work here and now".
Longer, louder and boasting even more hardware, it does everything to generate the illusion of bleeding-edge bang-per-buck, while cribbing shamelessly from 1991's Secret of the Ooze.
Hot air and fog generate the illusion of an explosion.
If it is the case that it is possible to generate the illusion that a thin person is fat, then it should be possible to generate the converse illusion that a fat person is thin.
Similarly, if the subject is touching both sides of the waist with his hands, and both elbows are stimulated to generate the illusion that the forearms are opening, this induces the illusion that the body is widening, becoming fatter [15], [16].
This distinction between real and apparent agency might appear odd to readers who, like Heider and others, adopt the constructivist hypothesis that humans use the mechanisms that generate the illusions of apparent agency to track real agents.
It generated the illusion of smoke that filled the user's throat and could then be exhaled in satisfying great billows.
It happened, he said, because preleasing to expanding Internet and technology outfits generated the illusion of demand for office space in Bellevue.
For instance, to circumvent the difficulty, the program known as Cleverbot "crowdsources" selfhood, borrowing intelligence from the humans who visit its Web site; it's from this "conversational purée" that it draws its remarks and retorts, thereby generating the illusion of what Christian calls "coherence of identity".
This has, in turn, generated the illusion of relegating nature to parks, forests, and natural reserves: one could think, for example, of the strict geometric rules of modern architecture, which often overlook the relation of buildings with the natural world within which they are placed.
Not only, then, does the specific application of the principle of sufficient reason fragment the world into a set of individuals dispersed through space and time for the purposes of attaining scientific knowledge, this rationalistic principle generates the illusion that when one person does wrong to another, that these two people are essentially separate and private individuals.
