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Harmful Effects Internet Addiction
1,683 wordsINTERNET ADDICTION: DISCONNECTION OF REALITY The movie Existing is set in the near future where virtual reality games are the main choice of entertainment for the population. These virtual reality games are able to emulate reality by interfacing the game user via bio-port installed in the back of their spine. A connection of players is totally submerged into a virtual world that is so real it cannot be distinguished from reality. A large population of people is addicted to these games to the poi...
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Artificial Intelligence Virtual Reality
1,440 wordsThe Matrix is a postmodern film about life in the year 2199. The word matrix in terms of computers is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, an interconnected array of diodes, cores, or other circuit elements that has a number of inputs and outputs and somewhat resembles a lattice or grid in its circuit design or physical construction. The film questions whether or not we live in reality or we live in a virtual world. The film claims that we (the human race) live inside our minds and that ...
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Virtual Reality Learning Environments
1,354 wordsPotentials and Challenges Computer graphics technology enables us to create a remarkable variety of digital images and displays that, given the right conditions, effectively enrich education [Clark 1983 ]. Real-time computer graphics are an essential component of the multi-sensory environment of Virtual Reality (VR). This article addresses the unique characteristics of emerging VR technology and the potential of virtual worlds as learning environments. I will describe several key attributes of V...
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Edgar Allan Poe Timothy Findley
1,039 wordsThe human imagination is a very powerful thing. It sets humanity apart from the rest of the creatures that roam the planet by giving them the ability to make creative choices. The imaginary world is unavoidably intertwined with the real world and there are many ways by which to illustrate this through literature, either realistically or exaggerated. Almost everything people surround themselves with is based on the unreal. Everything from the food we eat to the books we read had to have been thou...
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Jorge Luis Borges William Gibson
1,222 wordsFantasy paper/Science Fiction Perhaps no theme has so attracted the febrile imaginings of postmodern scholars as the creations - and the technological culture - of cyberpunk literature. Cyberpunk science fiction is the apotheosis of post-modernism, in one assessment, dystopian anticipation, in the lights of another, and the only art systematically dealing with the most crucial political, philosophical, moral, and cultural issues of our day, as envisioned by a third. (Schroeder, 331). For such fe...
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Does Darwinism Undermine Cartesian Dualism
1,858 wordsDoes Darwinism undermine Cartesian Dualism? In order for us to analyze the effect, caused by Darwinism on mind and body theory of Cartesian Dualism, it needs to be briefly mentioned what these two theories stand for. Although one of them is clearly philosophical and another is associated more with Biology as a practical science, it appears that Darwinism has many properties of just an abstract system of beliefs, so, in a way, it is more appropriate to talk of more advanced philosophical system u...
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Artificial Intelligence Deep Blue
1,870 words... if you describe the rust spots on your car, MYCIN will likely diagnose your car with meningitis as well. (Mechner, 1998). At the heart of many game-playing programs is an evaluation function. Early on, game developers quickly encountered the knowledge-acquisition bottleneck and traded quality of knowledge for speed of the program. Simple evaluation functions, linear combinations of easily identifiable features, were the mainstay of computer game programs for many decades. Alternative approac...
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Edgar Allan Poe Lord Of The Rings
1,051 wordsThe human imagination is a very powerful thing. It sets humanity apart from the rest of the creatures that roam the planet by giving them the ability to make creative choices. The imaginary world is unavoidably intertwined with the real world and there are many ways by which to illustrate this through literature, either realistically or exaggerated. Almost everything people surround themselves with is based on the unreal. Everything from the food we eat to the books we read had to have been thou...
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Christ Jesus Christ
3,499 words? INGREDIENTS OF THE RED PILL? ? an attempt to understand the discussion of reality, truth, illusion and religion through the lense of the film Matrix Began Ba? aran 9734024 F-TV OCAK 200 If you want the RED PILL turn to pag If you want the BLUE PILL turn to page 1 CONTENTS: pageIntroductioReligious symbols in the film? Matrix? 5 a. Symbols of names b. Neo and Christ relationshiReality versus truth and illusioConclusioReferences 1 Introduce? on: The film? Matrix? has received a lot of publicity ...
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Billions Of Dollars Time And Effort
3,117 wordsThe International Space Station The International Space Station is the doorway to the future of mankind and the world as it is known. The scientific and medical discoveries that will be made on the station could create billions of dollars annually. A plan like this, arranged to benefit the whole world economy, should sound like a good idea to every person, but some believe that the ISS is too risky, too ineffective, or too costly to create. Whether or not the space station is worth the money, ti...
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