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    Brain Gives Birth to Reality

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    would try to convince them that you are real and the world is real. As you begin to try to prove reality you begin to question yourself, under what circumstances do we understand reality? As we acknowledge what we believe to be realities, we form conclusions and assurances about our own existence and the existence of everything around us. Because our existence is assured through our perception of reality, we believe to be part of an existing real world. The existence of the real world is based upon

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    However, the ideal is far from reality, and this discrepancy in fact lies at the root of all social problems and necessitates the search for palliative and by no means simple solutions. Philosophers and scientists have been committed, from time immemorial, to the search for, and implementation

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    The Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov that is set in the Russian city of Moscow while Invisible Cities is a novel by Italo Calvino. Both novels share striking similarities but also do share sharply contrasting approaches. Both books are fictional and have similar stylistic devices in their description of events. Invisible Cities is a book that requires the reader to use extensively of his imagination so as to envision the cities that he is describing. The description of the cities

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    When answering the question What is the “No Miracles” Argument for scientific realism? We first need to look at what is scientific realism. The definition of which is ill- defined, one definition is; Scientific realism is a positive epistemic attitude towards the content of our best theories and models, recommending belief in both observable and unobservable aspects of the world described by the science. (Anjan Chakravartty,2011). Also When looking at scientific realism it is said that it can be

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    Christianity has been enculturated by the African people to be “truly African and truly Christian”. By doing this through various practices it makes the religion profoundly colorful and vivid so that the Biblical stories and memories come to life through the village and its people. There is a resonating deep understanding by the community that their morality is steeped in their traditions and ancestral worship. The people understand that everything comes from and flows from God and that the ancestors

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    he presents in the Third Meditation for the existence of God has been nicknamed the ‘Trademark’ argument. This argument deals with types of ideas, of which there are three, a principle called the Causal Adequacy principle, and a sliding scale of reality. The argument concludes that the idea of a God that is a perfect being is an innate idea that is real and was caused by God and therefore God is real. This argument will be explained with the greater detail in the next paragraph. In the Fifth Meditation

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    The Theory Of Ego Theory

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    Parfit in his section presents to us the bundle theory. Which is essentially the idea that it’s impossible to explain unity of consciousness and life in general by referring to a single person, it’s instead various mental states, events, and feelings that ultimately comprise life. Ego theory is that what unifies consciousness is having simultaneous experience and sensation that is being had by you at a single time, this unity is explained by the rationale that all of these experiences over the course

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    The “Supernatural” is something that defies the laws of physics, and is said to exists above and beyond nature. In early British texts many writers used the supernatural and magical power to enhance their characters being. They made them above others and noble, in a way that no other character was. Reflecting on the different approaches people conduct when they read and analyze literature, there is a multitude of ways that the supernatural can be interpreted. A reader should consider what is supernatural

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    Along with the rapid development of the internet in recent years, game and violence game have become companions of young people. We could not deny the fact that video game already has strong attraction for many people. Especially in today’s society, when work pressure is growing, gaming is an effective solution to relieve tension, dispel feeling of fatigue, anxiety. Playing the normal video game, which it not include any violence scenes, plus regulatory reasonable playing time can help players relaxed

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    they are also different as this essay indicates the world is very real. The Matrix In The Matrix, Neo realizes his world is in reality a computer generated world, in which people only live simulated lives, evident of being unreal. The movie portrays the world as ersatz, it is a venue that allows people to live a seeming normal life, but in reality they do not. This is very much how prisoners of the Allegory of the Cave reason the shadows they see are real. By believing this, the prisoners

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