4 ms·

Please don't say coffee is an illusion, I basically run on coffee. :)

• agumonkey 8y ago
  it's one cheap and common enough illusion
• jerf 8y ago
  Fortunately, you are an illusion too, so it all works out. I, too, think the word "illusion" is grotesquely overused in this area. It's a sophomoric equivocation between the denotation of illusion as being something that isn't there in the sense that it appears to be and the connotation of illusion as something that doesn't exist, and then getting high and going "whoooaaaaa" as you try to straddle the two things. Time clearly exists. Less clearly, but very well established, is that physics has already told us that our common sense ideas about time are already special cases, so we already know it isn't what we think it is. Equally well established is that we're not done understanding time yet. So the idea that time may not be what we thought it was is not so much "whooooaaa" as "duuuuhhhhh". Personally I find thinking about it and learning about it to be plenty interesting enough without the "illusion" word getting stuck in there, and indeed, if anything, spraying the word "illusion" around like rockets in a Quake deathmatch just makes it harder to understand what is being said.
• ende 8y ago
  It’s not the coffee that is the illusion, it is the sense that you are running.