Pseudothrombus - An Echocardiographic Illusion

Is Strategy an Illusion?

Strategy is the essential ingredient for making war either politically effective or morally tenable. It is the link between military means and political ends, the scheme for how to make one produce the other. Without strategy, there is no rationale for how force will achieve purposes worth the price in blood and treasure. Without strategy, power is a loose cannon and war is mindless. Mindless k...

Only an Illusion

An illusion of ingestion.

A pilot project in our laboratory recently revealed that subjects, when asked to ingest an amount of liquid comparable to that displayed in a transparent container, consistently ingested more than the displayed amount. The discovery that subjects are not very accurate at estimating the volume of liquid in their mouths would not be particularly interesting if the errors made by subjects were uns...

It's just an illusion.

A 55-year-old man was admitted for impaired health status and lower back pains. Analysis of serum proteins by capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) was performed on a Capillarys Protein(e) 6. The 1-globulin fraction showed a peak suggestive of the presence of a monoclonal component (Fig. 1A, dashed arrow). However, subsequent serum protein immunotyping (Capillarys Immunotyping) failed to demonst...

Is Conscious Will an Illusion? *

In this essay I critically examine Daniel Wegner’s account of conscious will as an illusion developed in his book The Illusion of Conscious Will (MIT Press, 2002). I show that there are unwarranted leaps in his argument, which considerably decrease the empirical plausibility and theoretical adequacy of his account. Moreover, some features essential to our experience of willing, which are relate...