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The illusion was designed to keep us constantly striving, adding tiny increments to the chances that our genes would get into the next generation. Yet in a modern environment--which, unlike the ancestral environment, features contraception--our obsession with material gain rarely has that effect. Besides, why should any of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE EVOLUTION OF DESPAIR | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

One would like to think that Babe's surprise success at the box office is a tribute to the good cheer with which its eponymous hero reminds us of our better selves. But it also has the enchantment of an extended magical illusion--91 minutes of wondering how they did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: BABE: WITH AN OINK, OINK HERE | 8/21/1995 | See Source »

Some Republicans argue that since corporate and foundation support for the arts outweighs federal support--$16 to $1--the NEA and NEH would not be missed. This is an illusion. Some American businesses, like Philip Morris, have been very generous in their support of the arts. But this generosity depends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PULLING THE FUSE ON CULTURE | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

"The mind ... is created by the body-specifically, by the brain.'' Nonsense. Without experience and memory, the brain is mindless. LEWIS P. LIPSITT Providence, Rhode Island Via E-mail Particularly muddled is the idea that consciousness is just an illusion manufactured by the brain. Any illusion by definition is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 7, 1995 | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

Actually, it would be hard to find many scientists who consider their own consciousness to be an illusion. And wouldn't such scientists come to this conclusion through their consciousness? Then the very edifice through which they perceived reality would be deemed an illusion and not an integral part of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 7, 1995 | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

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