Younger gamers are familiar with this illusion in Blizzard Entertainment games such as Warcraft, Starcraft or Diablo.
Falling prices in this one component creates the illusion of falling or lower prices everywhere.
Of course, this illusion flies in the face of common sense, to say nothing of the constitutional duty to provide for the common defense.
Dr Ehrsson believes that the invention of this illusion is an important step in understanding consciousness.
In this current economic environment, governments seek a condition of perpetual inflation in order to maintain the illusion of prosperity in the developed world.
The irony is that this too is an illusion, one in which we believe that by deconstructing artifice we are somehow enriched.
In this devil of a job market, many young adults now exist in a cloud of overconfidence with an illusion of endless time.
If we asked the question of, for example, a Buddhist priest, he or she would probably tell us that it is precisely this illusion of selfhood that makes so many in the West unhappy.
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So while this may create an illusion of better theoretical accuracy, in practice it can lead to inconsistent reporting by comparable companies and the potential for increased misstatements.
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President Reagan could have no illusion about the opposition he would face at home in embarking on this course: He had, after all, seen these forces weaken the West throughout the seventies.
This explosion of artificial wealth provides the illusion of economic dynamism but, in reality, it is parasitic - endless credit devours the finite fitra.
And this illusion was that material wealth does not make that much of a difference in how happy people are.
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Be of no illusion, this coalition of Center Left and Center Right will start off in a mood of sweetness and light.
And he has, although this may be an illusion produced by the graininess of the image, a dimple in his chin.
This time around fearful consumers are already head over heels in debt, wiser regarding the temporary illusion of good times financed by borrowing, and determined to pay down debt and save rather than spend.
You know, David, I don't think any of us were under the illusion that, again, having been off the world stage for so long, in dealing with this issue and in understanding what it was going to take to get developing nations of the world at the table that all these issues might be neatly wrapped up by December of this year.
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