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    The document discusses the themes and ideas presented in the film Inception. It explores questions around the ability to distinguish reality from dreams and how dreams can reflect one's subconscious. The key ideas are: - The film illustrates that dreaming involves both perceiving and creating perceptions, and questions what is real versus not real. - Characters gained knowledge by experiencing dreams, showing that epistemology investigates the nature of knowledge. - In dreams, dreamers fully experience realities, making it impossible to say what is real versus not real. - The film presents the idea that one can train themselves to navigate dreaming and waking states, and this has elements of realism.

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    The document discusses the themes and ideas presented in the film Inception. It explores questions around the ability to distinguish reality from dreams and how dreams can reflect one's subconscious. The key ideas are: - The film illustrates that dreaming involves both perceiving and creating perceptions, and questions what is real versus not real. - Characters gained knowledge by experiencing dreams, showing that epistemology investigates the nature of knowledge. - In dreams, dreamers fully experience realities, making it impossible to say what is real versus not real. - The film presents the idea that one can train themselves to navigate dreaming and waking states, and this has elements of realism.

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    The document discusses the themes and ideas presented in the film Inception. It explores questions around the ability to distinguish reality from dreams and how dreams can reflect one's subconscious. The key ideas are: - The film illustrates that dreaming involves both perceiving and creating perceptions, and questions what is real versus not real. - Characters gained knowledge by experiencing dreams, showing that epistemology investigates the nature of knowledge. - In dreams, dreamers fully experience realities, making it impossible to say what is real versus not real. - The film presents the idea that one can train themselves to navigate dreaming and waking states, and this has elements of realism.

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    Emani Hunter

    11/30/15
    1st hour
    Inception
    4. In the film it is said that dreaming involves simultaneous perceiving and creating; yet
    contemporary epistemology claims that this is the nature of perception dreaming or awake.
    The film, in my opinion illustrates both notions of creating ones perception.
    Epistemology defines the investigation into the the grounds and nature of knowledge itself- and
    in a way the film completely claims this idea. In the film, the characters constantly gained
    knowledge by experiencing and perceiving the main view of ones self dream. Through
    sensory experience they were able to create different senses of perception in someone elses
    dream- therefore, allowing for suppressive perceiving of entities.
    7. For the dreamers, the dreams become their reality. This is a theme in the film. Comment on
    the question, Who are we to say otherwise?
    Who are we to say otherwise that we are awake or dreaming? Just like Descartes- one is
    not certain of anything. However, in the film, dreams become reality- one can not say otherwise
    as reality is a concrete feeling and existence of fully living through experiences and truths. In a
    dream, dreamers constantly participate in this. This idea causes one to not be able to distinguish
    between what is real and what is false.
    10. Part of the premise of the story is that one can train oneself to navigate in and out of dream
    states. Is there any realism to this idea?
    There is a lot of realism to this idea as ones rememory causes them to already know
    what is or what should occur in their dream state. The training instance of this belief allows for
    one to fully understand that navigating in and out of dream states is overall reality and perception
    of the inception that metaphorically paints a picture of discernible restrain.
    12. The characters in the story continuously make distinctions between what is real and what is a
    projection while in their dream state. Does this make any sense? Explain.
    In ones dream state, one can tell what they wanted in their dream or what is somewhat
    off or odd about their dream. However, this does not make sense as one can not be
    completely certain whether theyre dreaming or if theyre awake. This again brings up the
    question who are we to say otherwise? to seem as though one can not say otherwise to many
    other questions including: are we living? am I me?
    13. The smallest idea can grow to the point that it will define you or destroy you. Explain what
    this statement means.
    This statement greatly means that one can believe in an idea so deeply that the belief can
    take over them mentally- as to make them block out what someone else can possibly believe.

    Believing in something so deeply can cause a mentality of destroying one, or it can cause a
    mentality of bringing to life ones personality and how one goes about other things.
    16. Do you believe that dreams can reflect our subconscious feelings or thoughts? Why or why
    not?
    I completely believe in the fact that dreams can reflect our subconscious feelings and
    thoughts. I feel as though dreams represent our minds memories and what weve once
    experienced. Our subconscious is linked to every part of our mind and theoretical entities that
    flow through our beliefs justifiable knowledge. Our dreams are illustrated by the society that we
    create within our mind and this society reflects our feelings and thoughts psychologically.

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