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    by The Wachowskis, both revolve around the philosophical idea of truth and illustrate the processes of people leaving their false worlds to experience the reality. Although the protagonist from these two pieces of work have different experiences in their journeys, both stories convey an underlying idea ———— nothing is absolute real or virtual and it is individual’s perceptions that shape their own realties. Both stories demonstrate that people will not naturally doubt the authenticity of their

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    Augmented Reality As you all know, technology has evolved throughout centuries. It is the living proof that an idea can get transformed into reality. This certain type of technology enhances the way life appears and positively affects one’s perception of reality. You may be wondering “How can all this be possible? “Augmented Reality works in complicated ways, but it’s not impossible. What it does is blurs the line between what’s actually real and what’s actually computer generated. What

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    the external world, it is necessary to doubt our sense in the external world. We cannot be sure that everything that our sense is telling us is truth because we are dreaming or not. Therefore, Descartes also doubts if the dream is separate from the reality, and how are we able to distinguish the difference between dreaming and awake. Descartes provides an example of either

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    known to release ‘feel good’ hormones (Scaccia, 2016), there is potential for it to motivate people to go outside, walk lots of kilometres per day and to interact and be more social within their community (Abad-Santos, 2016). The use of augmented reality in medicine has exciting possibilities that could potentially help improve psychological and physical health in such areas as depression, anxiety, PTSD, also in combating chronic pain and to improve rehabilitation after a stroke. Pokémon Go encourages

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    while the people around her daily life would think less of her. She tried so hard to reach the “perfect standard,” which resulted in a detrimental outcome. She committed suicide, and much of it had to do with her own disapproval. Not attending to the reality of her existence spawned an irreversible conclusion. Although social media offers positive aspects, it can be harmful because it generates jealousy and causes a decline in happiness. Social media is used beneficially in a variety of different ways

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    Charlie Brooker, written by William Bridges, and Charlie Brooker, questions where our morals lie in alternate realities. The character Robert Daly is shown using an artificial reality to relieve his workplace frustrations. His use of this artificial reality reaches into the realm of sadism. The sadism shown by Daly makes us question if it is necessary to bring our morals into artificial realities. Our technology is not at a point where an artificial personality is indiscernible from a real personality

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    fictional. However, that experience happens, occurs and is experienced by real students in a real space, the simulation centre. Some suggest that an experience through simulation is not a concrete experience but a fantasy and that cannot be as good as reality. For example, Bleakley & Bligh, (2009) state that medical students miss out by learning by simulation since the absence of a real patient shapes a fake interaction between the two parts and this may mislead the learner into stereotypes that do not

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    life; people can barely live without it. However, there are some disagreement as to whether the overall effect of this technology has been positive or negative. For instance, with the popularity of video games, lots of teenagers are addicted into the virtual world. People spend most of their fragmented time on their phones, computers. People should understand that spending time on Internet for their daily studying and working are useful and helpful because of its fast pace and powerful searching engine

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    been heard.” People are connected now more than ever through social media. Social media today gives people a positive impact through social interactions because it allows people to interact, gain knowledge, and meet the needs of people that their reality is not given them or that are not able to be fulfill in their daily lives. As a culture, technology provides people with endless

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    truly exist as a circle because a circle should be perfectly round and have exactly even radiuses. Materialism states that reality is essentially matter. Materialism to me is against what I believe because it says there is not use for intelligence, purpose, or causes. I believe that intelligence and purpose exist. I believe materialism and matter are not the truth of reality. Idealism is the belief that most real entities are ideas and other immaterial entities. I believe in idealism because

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