Exploring the Social Imagination

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Reality Architecture in the Social Imagination...

Inception is a 2010 science fiction action film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced the film with his wife, Emma Thomas. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets.

The plot goes like this...Dominick "Nick" Cobb and Arthur are "extractors": they perform corporate espionage using experimental military technology to infiltrate the subconscious of their targets and extract valuable information through a shared dream world. Their latest target, Japanese businessman Saito, reveals that he arranged their mission himself to test Cobb for a seemingly impossible job: implanting an idea in a person's subconscious, or "inception".

To break up the energy conglomerate of ailing competitor Maurice Fischer, Saito wants Cobb to convince Fischer's son and heir, Robert, to dissolve his father's company. In return, Saito promises to use his influence once the job is done to clear Cobb's apparent criminal status, which prevents him from returning home to his children.

Though Arthur believes the task is impossible, Cobb insists that it can be done. Cobb accepts the offer and assembles his team: Eames, a conman and identity forger; Yusuf, a chemist who concocts a powerful sedative for a stable "dream within a dream" strategy; and Ariadne, an architecture student tasked with designing the labyrinth of the dream landscapes, recruited with the help of Cobb's father-in-law, Professor Stephen Miles. While dream-sharing with Cobb, Ariadne learns his subconscious houses an invasive projection of his late wife Mal.

After Maurice dies in Sydney, Robert Fischer accompanies the body on a ten-hour flight back to Los Angeles. The team (including Saito, who wants to verify their success) uses this as an opportunity to sedate and take Fischer into a shared dream. At each dream level, the person generating the dream stays behind to set up a "kick" that will be used to awaken the other sleeping team members from the deeper dream level; to be successful, these kicks must occur simultaneously at each dream level, a fact complicated due to the nature of time, which flows much faster in each successive level. They use "Non, je ne regrette rien" as an auditory cue to help coordinate the kicks. The first level is Yusuf's dream of a rainy Los Angeles.

The team abducts Fischer, but they are attacked by armed projections from his subconscious, which has been specifically trained to defend against such intruders. The team takes Robert and a wounded Saito to a warehouse, where Cobb reveals that while dying in the dream would normally wake Saito up, the powerful sedatives needed to stabilize the multi-level dream will instead send a dying dreamer into "limbo": a world of infinite subconscious from which escape is extremely difficult, if not impossible, and in which a dreamer risks forgetting they are in a dream.

You see, this concept of dream architecture follows agreement reality, it follows subliminal messaging, the use of propaganda, brainwashing with its tokens for mass hypnosis...all with the aim of getting people on board with an agenda that is not their own (a fake reality that has a grip on those using it and as long as they continue to use it, with the continual fake feed that drives it, they will live in a fake reality which will either run down or loop eternally).

This explains the reality in which we live. Yes, it is an agreement reality but it is the fake one. It follows with all those ideas of  fake feed input that will have it run down or loop forever. There was a real construct. But, it fell.  So, what we are seeing and or experiencing is not the original. That's because at the beginning an opposing directive caused an error in the basic construct.

The original was violated/corrupted and the existing one is only a fake ... or poor copy of the real one caused by error which was brought on by doubt 'second guessing' the real architecture and its true architect. For sure, those that are creating Ai that grows or evolves must be concerned about this very thing. Lest they forget they are dreaming.... a deception.

We need to wake up to the fact of our 'fake' agreement reality or like in the movie risk forgetting we are in a 'dream' looping eternally in a 'fake' reality architecture or rather very poor copy of the original.


*ONLINE SOURCE ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception#Plot

5 comments :

  1. Jesus said to them, “You faithless people! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Mark 9:19.

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  2. In Him, we live, move and have our being... ~ Acts 17:28. He holds all things together ~ COL 1:17. He is the Word, He was at the beginning, He was with God and is God ~ John 1:1. The Creator of all things seen and unseen ~ COL 1:16.

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  3. In fact I believe that the evidence we are in a corrupt construct is the fact that we experience loops, cycles and repetitive events in economics, culture, etc. In the coming new reality initiated by God Himself and Christ's return we will see the end of all cycles and repetitiveness. In fact as Paul said having your mind renewed is a part of this - recognizing the flaws in our low-level broken reality and turning to the Lord to use His authority over it.

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  4. I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree together, so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be united in mind and conviction ~ 1 COR 1:10.

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  5. Romans 12:2
    Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God ~ Romans 12:2.

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