It is hard for an old Montrealer to read Ian Lustick's lavishly promoted Op-Ed in the Times this past Sunday, "Two-State Illusion," without thinking about the Durham Report's odd legacy.
That's a bit how it felt — like I was trapped in the illusion of thinking that he is such a great guy and I have to convince him that it can work out between us.
Off the leash The Independent Regulatory Analysis Act (S. 3468) might seem to make sense -- until you spoil the illusion by thinking.
Addressing the Assembly of Experts, Khamenei further that Obama is "in illusion" for thinking that sanctions would bring Iran to its knees.
After a short fling with a New England woman, he was inspired to write "Never Going Back Again", a song about the illusion of thinking that sadness will never occur again once feeling content with life.
It's the illusion of thinking that the bug that has just appeared is not possible to fix, and the whole platform needs to be rewritten from scratch, in order to get it going again.
And besides, anyone who has been too long in the territory of psychotherapy has probably found too much of a mixture of narcissism and arrogance, along with the illusion of thinking that was actually, yes a rearranging of prejudices.
And when Harris notes, in italics: "The illusion of free will is itself an illusion," I'm thinking, what?
It's not as though the physicalist view is, "we're bodies that have some illusion of thinking". No, we're bodies that really do think.
And instead of the usual art-history-lecture spoon-feeding of information, you have the illusion of seeing and thinking for yourself with heightened powers.
