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In The Hollywood Film Inception: Determining Or Dreaming?

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Rene Descartes once said “Humans have two primary states of consciousness: waking and dreaming.” Descartes argued that humans do not have the ability to know whether they are dreaming.A dream is constructed according memories and thoughts.When we enter a dream we have no grasp on reality, so we believe the dream to be real life. For example, when people have nightmares they often scream and or become physically violent during the duration of the dream. This is because the brain has accepted the dream as reality. This tells us that we cannot know if one is dreaming or awake. It all comes to action and outcome. The action being us accepting a dream as reality and the outcome making us an unreliable source of knowledge. Our perception of being awake or dreaming is a unreliable source of knowledge. …show more content…

The task is to make Robert Fischer Jr. break up his dead father’s business. Robert Fischer Jr. had a weak relationship with his father which worked to Cobb’s advantage. Cobb is offered a cleared named if he helps Siato,a business competitor, destroy his competition. Cobb tells Siato “Once an idea had taken hold of the brain it is almost impossible to eradicate.” This also applies to knowledge and more importantly false knowledge. When we believe something to be true it is very hard to accept an opposing viewpoint.
Cobb and his team create a three step plan to plant the information in Robert’s mind. The first step was to make Robert believe that he would not follow his father's footsteps. The second step was to make Robert believe that he will create something for himself.The last step was to make Robert Jr. believe that his father did not want to be

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