TO DREAM OR NOT TO DREAM, WHAT IS REALITY?
Inception vs Descartes. Inception suggests that you can know that you’re dreaming and therefore act and behave accordingly in a dream to achieve a desired outcome. While Descartes, states that while in a dream it is impossible to know that you are dreaming. In both the movie Inception and Descartes, each infer that dreams can be so real that it is impossible to know if you are dreaming or not. The movie solves this question by introducing the concept that you could have an object that only the possessor knows its properties and can depend upon it to ensure your state of consciousness. Descartes proposes no such simple fix, but states that if you are thinking about dreaming you therefore can’t be dreaming. “And my astonishment is such that it is almost …show more content…
For example, we must believe that there exists a machine that allows people to dream share. The concept has to be true in order for the movie to be believable and the events that occur in the manner in which they are portrayed on screen is unshakably true. In addition, we must also believe in the ability of a separate individual, whom is unknown to the dreamer has the capabilities to enter into their dream and manipulate the situation to that separate individual’s advantage. Not to mention, in the movie the bad guys never seem to run out or guns never seem to run out of bullets. At some point, wouldn’t you be asking yourself, where are all these people coming from and how are they finding me? To Descartes point, if you are doubting the fact that this reality is not real and you begin to think about it that should be sufficient to bring you out of whatever dream state you are currently it. If a person is skeptical of his environment to the point of doubting his own existence, the mere fact that he is doubting would prove he
Inception vs Descartes. Inception suggests that you can know that you’re dreaming and therefore act and behave accordingly in a dream to achieve a desired outcome. While Descartes, states that while in a dream it is impossible to know that you are dreaming. In both the movie Inception and Descartes, each infer that dreams can be so real that it is impossible to know if you are dreaming or not. The movie solves this question by introducing the concept that you could have an object that only the possessor knows its properties and can depend upon it to ensure your state of consciousness. Descartes proposes no such simple fix, but states that if you are thinking about dreaming you therefore can’t be dreaming. “And my astonishment is such that it is almost …show more content…
For example, we must believe that there exists a machine that allows people to dream share. The concept has to be true in order for the movie to be believable and the events that occur in the manner in which they are portrayed on screen is unshakably true. In addition, we must also believe in the ability of a separate individual, whom is unknown to the dreamer has the capabilities to enter into their dream and manipulate the situation to that separate individual’s advantage. Not to mention, in the movie the bad guys never seem to run out or guns never seem to run out of bullets. At some point, wouldn’t you be asking yourself, where are all these people coming from and how are they finding me? To Descartes point, if you are doubting the fact that this reality is not real and you begin to think about it that should be sufficient to bring you out of whatever dream state you are currently it. If a person is skeptical of his environment to the point of doubting his own existence, the mere fact that he is doubting would prove he