...computer simulation. This may sound crazy, but many respected scientists agree that we are likely living in a simulation of reality. Neil deGrasse Tyson, renowned astrophysicist and author, claims that there is a 50-50 chance that our existence is a program on someone else’s hard drive. Even though humans and chimpanzees share more than 98% of their DNA, there is a significant gap between their intelligences. Tyson believes there is a high probability that a being whose intelligence is far superior to humans’...
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...“Humankind cannot bear much reality” (Eliot 14) which means the reality is just an individual understanding. People are a victim of their ability to recognize the actuality and taking into account what people comprehend as truth that results in chasing numerous negative things that ended up in destruction. In the play, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams explores the idea that when an individual seeks to reconcile the conflict between illusion and reality, it makes an individual weak since, an Illusion has affected their mind and brain so effectively, that they prefer to live in an illusion and believe in their false perception, which results in becoming insane at the end. Blanche DuBois, a desperate and psychotic lady, who was...
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...Bart King (1873–1965) was an American cricketer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. King was part of the Philadelphia team that played from the end of the 19th century until the outbreak of World War I. This period of cricket in the United States was dominated by "gentlemen cricketers"—men of independent wealth who did not need to work. King, an amateur from a middle-class family, was able to devote time to cricket thanks to a job set up by his teammates. A skilled batsman who proved his worth as a bowler, King set numerous records in North America during his career and led the first-class bowling averages in England in 1908. He successfully competed against the best cricketers from England and Australia. King was the dominant bowler on his team when it toured England in 1897, 1903, and 1908. He dismissed batsmen with his unique delivery, which he called the "angler," and helped develop the art of swing bowling. Sir Pelham Warner described Bart King as one of the finest bowlers of all time, and Donald Bradman called him "America's greatest cricketing son." (Full article...) Recently featured: Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway – Herrerasaurus – Lê Quang Tung Archive – By email – More featured articles... Did you know... From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content: Two Skytop Lounges in their original Milwaukee Road paint scheme. These cars were part of the Twin Cities Hiawatha equipment pool ... that after their retirement, two of the Milwaukee...
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...technology, surely you have come across the term Virtual Reality technology. Usually this term often appear when we're reading an article that discusses about the gaming world. However, you must be wondering what is the technology of Virtual Reality? Well, at this time the article I'll invite you guys to get to know closer about the sense of Virtual Reality technologies and also with kegunaanya. What Is It The Technology Of Virtual Reality? Virtual Reality is a latest technology innovations that were developed to enable a person performing an interaction of a graphical object with 3D visualizations or images berhologram. This technology is able to provide a new experience for the user, because...
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...Augmented Reality (AR) is one technology that is growing very rapidly in almost all around the world. Augmented reality technology is a technology that combines visual objects or virtual world into the real world display in real time. Department of Information Technology is an eight years old department that has basic amenity such as a building with several rooms where the learning processes take place. The introduction of this department’s building through verbal or oral communication is deemed insufficient to provide information to the fullest. The use of brochures as written information and the use of augmented reality technology in Augmented Reality Design of Department of Information Technology Udayana University with Android Based application...
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...Essay PHIL 201 July 7, 2014 Essay After reading these pieces I concluded that the central theme is being awaken from a false reality but each piece differs in the action that follow the awakening. The Matrix is set in a futuristic setting, where the theory of being controlled by a massive computer is a real possibility. What I find most interesting is that Plato actually describes the concept of The Matrix, almost as if Plato’s dialogue was used an inspiration. In The Matrix and Plato’s dialogue, humans are not physically living the life they perceive as “real” but are stationary beings who are forced to live a false reality prescribe to them. This is where René Descartes’ excerpt differs from the previously mentioned. The person is aware of possibility that what he knows as true could be false, that how could we know if what we are living is done consciously or if our existence is but a dream. All of the excerpts also rely on the reasoning that the mind is the sole contributor of our existence and our physical senses only respond to what the mind knows. The differences in the readings is based on the actions or possible outcomes that occur once the awakening has taken place. In The Matrix, Neo decides to act and decides to embark on a journey to discover reality not being controlled by a computer. Plato’s dialogue is different because this is based on a hypothetically theory, so while there is no physically action the questions lies in how would people respond to...
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...What we see is not the truth, bur rather our interpretation and distortion as our imagination fuses with our conception of reality. We transform the world around us, give meanings to abstractions, and find order in a world programmed by disorder – chaos. We are prone to chaos, to nature, to the forces that influences and envelops reality. We conceptualize these omnipotent forces through our usages of symbols – to create an understandable world through abstractions – in order to explain what these forces are. Trying to find a single definition for chaos is impossible as chaos is the foundation of human knowledge and influences the creation of ideas, of thoughts and of intelligence. However, if we conceptualize reality through abstractions, are we denizens of reality or denizens of a realm of abstractions? Lewis Thomas, in his essay “Crickets, Bats, Cats & Chaos,” defines chaos as “total unpredictability and randomness” that nevertheless occurs when “when any complex, dynamic system is perturbed by a small uncertainty . . . [results in] an amplification of that disturbance and spread of unpredictable, random behavior throughout the whole system” (492). It is the apparent randomness, compilations of thoughts and sequences, which results...
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...is the part of the personality system with which a person is born, it is inherited and that is present at birth. It is comprised of urges and desires plus the effects and fixations of early childhood experiences. All memories are kept here. All of the power for the operation of the other two systems and is in close touch with the bodily processes from which it derives its energy. It represents the inner world of subjective experience and has no knowledge of objective reality. Operates on the unconscious level of the human mind. Avoiding pain and obtaining pleasure, the Id has its command two processes the reflex action and the primary process. Attempts to discharge tension by forming a memory mage of an object that will remove the tension. This form of memory image is called wish fulfillment and is the only reality that the Id knows. “I want.” Ego come into existence because the individual needs some type of conscious element with which to make contact with the objective world of reality in order to satisfy the needs for the body and the Id. It derives its power from the Id. The ego develops as the “self” develops and becomes conscious not only of itself but of the outside world. Superego The superego incorporates the values and morals of society which are learnt from one's parents and others....
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...University of Phoenix Material Metaphysics Matrix and Essay Part 1 Matrix: Analyze metaphysics in philosophy by completing the following matrix. Provide a definition of the branch of philosophy as given in a philosophical source (the readings, supplemental materials, or outside academic sources) and list a minimum of three historical developments, theories, key contributors, and principal issues. Bullet point answers are acceptable. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ...
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...Jordan Patton 11/2/2012 Communications-Mark Neumann A Small Place Essay Reality is how we perceive the world and that reality can be changed to circumstances and through communication. The reality can be altered to fit a certain group of people so that they will only ever see the beauty in the place that they are visiting. In A Small Place they expose this factor in the so called beautiful place of Antigua, but in actuality Antigua is disguised by beauty to hide the poverty and the corrupt government that has morphed these natives into something that they never should have been. The culture altered into some hybrid that would be pleasing to the upper class and to the tourists that would come to visit. The setting of Antigua is almost standing still, things seem the same day to day to the villagers when it is described in A Small Place. But it real reality the government is in control, they speak English instead of their native tongue or its horrible slang described by Kincaid. The schooling is horribly lacking mostly shown by a library that has been damaged and needs to be rebuilt for the last ten years. The sign that is posted on the library refers to the colonial period of Antigua, which is before the time that the English took over with their ways. This is something that is not normally seen to tourists, they see a laid back way of life with simple people. But the people themselves did not choose this style, they did not wish for the education to be denied...
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...Lei 1 Lei, Qi Professor Kwong English W131, Section 17054 21 February 2013 Essay 1 In the post 9-11 world, with the rapid development of technology, more and more people are concerned with the issue of exposure. The essay “Our Celebrities, Ourselves” by Neal Gabler examines the phenomenon that people have obsessions with celebrities’ personal lives. He thinks their unpredictable and dramatic lives attract people’s attention, and their self-discovery stories enable people to find emotional connections. Another essay “The Naked Crowd” by Jeffrey Rosen focuses on the identity issues and he asserts that people have the tendency to expose their lives to the public to build fake intimacy in order to get a sense of connectedness. Both authors share the same understanding that all people, no matter whether they are famous or not, have the urge to build images in order to create emotional connections despite the inaccuracy the images have, and while Gabler holds a positive attitude toward such phenomenon, Rosen finds it dangerous to expose oneself. First, both authors claim that in the post-9/11 world, people are in need to find emotional connections through real life stories, but they think people achieve such a goal in different ways. Gabler thinks people can get emotional connections by recognizing the similarities they have with celebrities. Gabler believes the horrible event of 9/11 “created a new authentic divide” between true stories and fake ones (Gabler 209). People...
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...Literature – Henrik Ibsen Abstract: In this essay, Ibsen’s plays, The Wild Duck, and Ghosts are considered in relation to themes of illusions and realities. In both plays, families are held together by illusions, yet torn apart by truths that have been concealed to protect the children. Ibsen’s use of artistic realism is an ironic art form where illusions and realisms are contradicted to reveal the deeper conflicts of ordinary lives. Ibsen presents the complicated realities of ordinary lives and emphasizes the fact that there are always many realities -- just as there are many illusions. Title: Illusions and Realities in Ibsen’s Plays The Wild Duck and Ghosts Introduction In Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, illusions and reality are set into a conflict within the story of a son’s personal desire to confront idealism. Throughout much of the play, the son, Greger, argues the value of truth with the reluctant Dr. Relling. Relling insists on the importance of illusions, but fails to discourage Greger’s intentions and a play that begins as a comedy quickly turns into a tragedy because of these conflicts. At the heart of the illusions in this play are the ways that people assume many roles in a family, impersonating multiple ideals as ways for managing their relationships. This theme of impersonation is also developed in Ibsen’s Ghosts, where family relations are slowly undone as the illusions and deceptions are stripped away. In both plays, deceptions are strategic...
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...“Fiction presents more opportunities for creating uncanny sensations than are possible in real life” (Freud, 18). This quote comes from an essay written by Sigmund Freud in 1919 entitled “The ‘Uncanny.’” In this article, Freud discusses the subject of uncanniness and proposes what he thinks deems certain events or things to be labeled as uncanny. Freud states, “the ‘uncanny’ is that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar” (1-2). Freud theorizes that one would find something uncanny if he had previous exposure to it, but was now viewing it in a horrifying manner. For example, a doll is not supposed to be terrifying. Dolls are loved by young children and seen as innocent or harmless. However, a fictional story about a doll that becomes possessed and kills people is frightening to people of all ages. This scenario would be considered uncanny because a doll, such a familiar thing, has deviated from the norm and turned horrific. Freud’s essay continues to flourish around the idea that it is most frightening when something so familiar turns into something so terrible. This feeling of mixed emotions can be referred to as “cognitive dissonance.” In the Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, cognitive dissonance is defined as, “psychological conflict resulting from incongruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneously.” While Freud himself never mentioned this psychological term himself in his article, it is very obvious that it has correlation...
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...Ayn Rand’s theory of Objectivism states that reality exists regardless of human consciousness. In other words, human beings don’t shape reality – but are shaped by reality. Rand believed that human knowledge and values are determined by the nature of reality and that human beings may only acquire said knowledge through sense perception. In other words, humans learn by way of senses (hearing, seeing, feeling) and logic. Subsequently, Rand also believed that the purpose of an individual’s life was to pursue and eventually achieve happiness within themselves. According to Objectivists, it is rational to be self-interested. “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life,...
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...Society defines reality as the states of things as it actually occur (Turner, 2012), but what if it is constructed by people in this society to turn it the reality that people thought it was reality? Nowadays society has a very rough idea about what is reality and what is constructed society. They can only understand the captivation of the catchword “reality construction” when they understand which thoughts are meant to be replaced by it in the first place: reality so-called. Different background or places of people have different perception of reality. A understanding of reality will be different in western country as they will feel that having a tan skin is prettier by seeing an advertisement where the model have the tan skin. But in country such as Asian, society will prefer more on pinkish skin but not tan skin as tan skin will be known as a lower class of people. What influences the society is their brain. Our brain constructs the reality that we thought it is a reality. Brain is trapped in the darkness inside of your skull, and all it ever sees are electrical and chemical signals. For example, all the colors people see, and so on, that doesn’t really occur; that’s an interpretation by the brain (Eagleman, 2012). Even though nowadays society has done much research on constructed reality, yet the norm that already been planted on the people mind is hardly to be eliminated. From the advertisement that is provided, it shows that the woman is pinned under a man and another...
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