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    In “The Matrix” and Plato’s Phaedo and Republic questions of what makes up a whole and fulfilling life are answered. Both The Matrix and Plato provide alternate forms of reality, one that is based on truth and is fulfilling and one that is based on a false reality that offers false forms of fulfillment. The Matrix and Plato show the difference of living a life in a true reality and a “fake” reality where everything inside this reality is fake making the lives inside this reality fake. True education

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    Vivid autobiographical episodic memories formed when an individual experiences intense emotions, generating from a surprising public event defines Flashbulb memories (FBMs). Permanent and consistent recollections processed cognitively and stored as explicit remembrances in long term memory are additional features of FBMs (Goldstein, 2014). Brown & Kulik (1977) first proposed this phenomenon and argued FBMs are resistant to change like photographs. The ongoing debate over the process of cognition

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    Allegory of the Cave is about breaking one’s mind free from what one thinks he or she knows and achieving knowledge beyond that. The Matrix has a similar view on the people’s ability to achieve true education. However, the two works differ on the recollection of knowledge from childhood.

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    Socrates’ argument for the immortality of the soul based on its likeness to the Forms. In what follows the essay will be focusing on the three arguments that Socrates provides for the immortality of the soul, the argument from the opposites, the Recollection Theory and the affinity argument, the analyses of Semmias counter arguments as well as Socrates response to them. Socrates first argument is the argument from opposites, which asserts that everything comes to be from out of its opposite. Socrates

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    to look for” (80e3-50). If both premises of “Meno’s Paradox” are accepted as true, then the paradox necessarily implies that searching for any answer is both impossible and unnecessary. Plato demonstrates the veracity behind the his theory of recollection and the concept of all true knowledge being innate through his Socratic dialogues in the text, Meno.

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    Memory Distortion

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    memory. This is particularly valid for such studies that have analyzed the credibility of the source giving the deceptive data [Underwood 8: Pezdek, 1998]. Then again, efficient studies manipulating social weight and gathering agreement on false recollections are only just now starting to

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    Meno's Paradox Essay

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    which is being considered in the Meno, neither Socrates nor Meno can define virtue, and so they do not know what virtue is, therefore they can not inquire about virtue. Socrates attempts to solve this paradox with his theory of recollection. He begins by speaking of the soul of man as being immortal - that it dies and is reborn, again and again. He goes on to say `seeing that the soul is immortal and has been born many times, and has beheld all things both in this world and in the

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    Counterargument 1: The soul does not live on after bodily death. Simmias equates the soul to a harmony and the body to a lyre. A harmony is invisible, without form, and comparable to the divine. On the other hand, a lyre is physical, structured, and composite. If a lyre's strings were to be broken a harmony would cease to exist. And if the body is like a lyre and the soul is like a harmony, then the soul must die before the body. Counterargument 2: In the eyes of Cebes, the soul is like a man and

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    dual process, whether these improve or reduce the performances, for example, repetition helps to improve the familiarity-related task (Henson, et al., 1999). Besides, encoding the information into the deepest level will create a successful way for recollection, but it requires a long time to occur it (Rugg & Curran, 2007, Craik & Tulving, 1975). What is more, priming effect is a phenomenon in which exposure to a word or concept later makes it easier to recall related information and make it faster the

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    Interventions Used that Demonstrate this Theoretical Approach During the session, Dr. Carlson utilized multiple interventions that indicated his adherence to Adlerian Theory to include lifestyle analysis, specifically, exploring birth order and early recollections. As Dufrene et al. (2016) posited that the goal of Alderian therapy is “to help a client identify and understand mistaken beliefs about self, others, and life; make changes in those beliefs; and thus participate more fully in a social world”, an

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