Mixed reality

Media, in the forms of photography, film, and writing are similar in that they often reveal a particular message, or comment on a societal aspect. For some, these messages may be underlying, while in others, they are evident and transparent. This idea helps distinguishes differences in media. Photography is widely open for interpretation. In the case of Errol Morris’ “Will the Real Hooded Man Please Stand Up?” the lack of context and textual clues make it hard to discern what was true or what…

I found out that I change my personality when I go online. What I mean by that is, I act all confident, brave and outspoken in my digital self where as in my real life I am a bit shy person. Digital Identity has given people an escape route from reality. It gives us a new platform where we can be whoever we want. Now ask yourself. Who are you in digital identity? What are your similarities and differences? Knowing or unknowing we change ourself. In my real life identity, I don 't talk very much…

Jp36884, Junseong Park Response Berkeley 's Idealism In his book, Principles of Human Knowledge, Berkeley, in Principles: part 1, replies to the claim that, 'all that is real and substantial is banished out of the world. 'He first responds to this by saying, “...instead thereof a chimerical scheme of ideas takes place.” What he is saying here is that idealism does not just banish all out of existence, instead, it replaces all that exists with ideas of those particular things in the outside…

“Systems are defined as meaningful wholes that are maintained by the interaction of their parts.’’(Lazlo 1972) In Shelly Smith-Acuna’s book Systems Theory in Action, she discusses the idea of systems looking from a larger perspective that is intertwined with the smaller meanings. (Smith-Acuna, 2011, p.6). Social groups Systems are a complete part of sets that have interconnected pieces that work together. Subsystem “As we saw when we looked at context, systems are made up of parts, or…

magical and the mundane interwoven seamlessly, the story is set in an otherwise ordinary world with familiar historical and/or cultural realities, and objects and setting within the story taking lives of their own in a way that is ordinary to the characters. These characteristics can be found in the following stories. Magical realism is the blend between reality and the extraordinary. Both texts, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children,” and “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the…

Aristotle is trying to divide realty into a systematic way. His way of identifying the four types of being is a way of trying to explain why these aspects of reality are a part of it and why. Somethings are able to exist on its own, while others rely on being in relationship—in combination—with another to exist. They both feature different effects in reality and how we perceive it to…

Some of them seem so real, that we can hardly tell them apart from real life, which is the premise of Descartes’s argument. Everything seems so real when we are dreaming, so we often mistake it for reality. He speaks upon this, to which he says “Now let us assume that we are asleep and that all these particulars, e.g. that we open our eyes, shake our head, extend our hands, and so on, are but false delusions; and let us reflect that possibly neither…

considerable and elevated distance. For their part, the prisoners have been able to see only shadows of objects projected by the high fire in the cave and the lack of outside knowledge, believing that those shadows are real objects, pertaining to their own reality. They have never been outside the…

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the Nintendo Switch advertisement titled First Look at Nintendo Switch can be analyzed and compared with each other. In Plato’s allegory, prisoners are trapped in the cave and forced to stare at shadows on a wall. When one of the prisoners is freed and exposed to the truth behind the shadows, which is that they are simply objects being manipulated by puppeteers. The freed prisoner is also also introduced to the outdoors, allowing for him to be enlightened.…

A pseudoscience an idea that is an idea that is mistaken for being true or scientific fact. Because it cannot be explained does not mean that it is the supernatural. A pseudoscience topic that should be looked into ghosts and the idea of a life after we are dead. This is such a controversial topic that has left people confused for many centuries, but with the scientific advancements that we have today it’s safe to say there is no such thing. The idea of ghost has been very popular because there…