Alternate reality

the world is a reflection of more perfect and ideal forms. As the story begins, Plato’s teacher, Socrates, presents a world of alternate reality to Plato’s brother Glaucon by telling him to imagine a cave full of prisoner’s who have been chained their entire lives. The shadows, voices, and figures given to them by the puppeteers on the wall have constructed the only reality the prisoners have ever known. Those few interpretations lead the prisoners to believe the shadows are real. To the prisoners

Pan 's Labyrinth: Fascism Faced with Fantasy Pan 's Labyrinth is a film based in 1944 fascist Spain during the reign of Francisco Franco, following the Spanish civil war. His regime stressed rules and order as well as the repression of the individual. The very basis of fascism revolves around the idea that a country should be ruled by a single power and all others should follow this power regardless of their own individual opinions. It is this notion that brought the strict regulations and violent

MANIPULATED PERCEPTION Generalising, all of our physical senses are stored as subconscious memories – the people, objects (even apparitions and the supernatural), etc. which may appear in our dreams are comprised of our knowledge of the external reality. Memory fragments are ubiquitous in all forms of cognitive processing – stored memories enable the brain to construct mental content. As a result, an individual’s perception will vary according to the memories and knowledge accumulated by the physical

It focuses on a dystopian future in which the assumed reality is actually a computer-controlled world called “The Matrix”. The producers of the movie force the same question that Plato had- How do we really know what reality is? The main character in the movie, Neo, has a hard time discerning the truth and reality. At one point, Morpheus states that, “The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the

There is no single, true universal reality. What is real and true varies from individual to individual, in light of one's own thoughts, conditions, and learning. Through many year and over time many people have tried to take a hold on reality and alternate realities as well, on top of that they also had to deal with the facts of identity. In the movie 41 by Glenn Triggs, the fact of reality is altered by the view of time travel and it take a new perspective on reality and identity. This could be also

gobbled up.” (236). The dream rag, while at first does not seem to hold an important contribution to Pi’s survival, is actually instrumental to Pi. By asphyxiating himself with the rag, Pi passes time but more importantly, does not fully face the reality of his overwhelming and demoralizing

of Agency, and the Phenomenon of Reality Television.” that, “...it is existential banality and the boredom of our own lives that we desire as spectacle….In elevating the banal to spectacle, we are elevating ourselves as media objects.” (Chung 33) Similarly, news media, which one would expect to be a dose of objective reality, follows the same developments as other media. Mark Peace of Aberystwyth University writes, “This is a telltale sign of construction of reality by news broadcasters in two ways:

In science, can there truly exist absolute knowledge? Can we truly trust what the KAN+ is advertising is truly reality? The Noumena app appears on the surface to be a great, state-of-the-art technological invention, but the fact that it states it can solve the problem of sensations is implausible. In regards to the noumena app, I believe that it cannot truly allow users to experience the word beyond the limitations of normal bodily perception due to the flawed creation process that encompasses the

When taken through the context of Pi’s alternate, factual story, it becomes apparent that Richard Parker exists in a fictional part of Pi’s world. Pi creates the tiger to symbolize his savage and animalistic side. This creation enables Pi to cope with committing horrific acts in order to survive

Introduction One idea can influence the world, but how far can that idea go if it is spread by one person? Could an idea also present a reality better than the one humanity is accustomed to today? The 2015 film Tomorrowland attempts to reveal the answers to these questions in the real world as well as in an alternate dimension where humanity has a different outlook on the future. Tomorrowland, produced and directed by Brad Bird, follows Casey and Frank. Casey is a teenager who seems to be one of