...What Really is Reality? Reality can be defined as many different things, “The state of things as they are or appear to be rather than as one might wish them to be, the quality or state of being actual or true, totality of all things possessing actuality, existence or essence”(thefreedictionary),“ A real event/entity or state of affairs, something that is neither derivative nor dependent but exists necessarily” (Merriam-Webster), “The world or the state of things as they actually exist as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them”(Google) These definitons all have a common factor of the idea of something being true or real, but how can you tell if it is or is not? Everyone has a different perspective or view on life, some persepctives are clear and some are not. There are many theories on perspectives and reality, but ultimately the choice of what to believe is yours. There are many modern movies that challenge the idea of reality, one in specific is titled Inception. The basic plot of science fiction film Inception tells the story of Dom Cobb and his business partner Arthur who perform illegal corporate espionage by entering the subconscious mind of their targets by using a “dream within a dream” strategy including many “dream levels” to obtain valuable information on their subjects. This strategy of entering minds can also change a person’s reality and perspecitve by enabeling Cobb to plant an idea into the person’s mind changing the outcome of what may or may...
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...Reality template Since I was a child I had a dream to one day rule the skies flying at speeds only a handful of people got to experience. To be as agile as a hawk and have the might of a lion, I strived to be immersed in the "national culture that glamorises soldiers" this was my reality, or was it? With little concept of war and death, had I merely been brainwashed by a society driven by hate in order to become the next gen in "homicidal technology"? Whilst we think we can determine our own reality, this may prove to be impossible in the modern world. Wherever we go we are surrounded by technology that allows us to be instantly connected to information from around the world. Where “currency” in the words of Thomas Jefferson is “free flowing information” but how free flowing is it actually? We are continuously kept in the dark by the forces of the media who sift and filter information as they please in order to make our “world a better place”. It ultimately leaves us in complete ignorance of the horrible costs and consequences of war. In order to avoid being lured into a false reality by the spins sold to us by the media, we as a society should aim to seek out alternative independent journalism ... And the ability to question the truth of existing media sources. Most of Western society today has been constantly deceived with illusions of personal freedom, we are so complacent that we just assume that everything that is conveyed to us by the media is true. Hence this...
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...Influence is unavoidable; our reality is not of our own making Like a game, reality is dependent on a set of mutual laws and expectations rule-makers agree upon and there are penalties for those who go against the expectations of the majority such as the loss of a “life” or “game over”. Some have a lot invested in the game- wealth, time, effort, goals. Others see it for what it is; a projection of our imagination with a subjective sense of meaning. This game of life is far more complex than any board game like Chess or Monopoly because it represents a reality that offers greater levels of intricacy than which merely mimics or replicates an aspect or semblance of life itself. Reality is transient. Reality is determined through the consensus of the majority and therefore is subject to change when the consensus changes, as happened over five hundred years ago when people began to realise that the then dominant view of the universe as geocentric as flawed. However, such change in the paradigm is inevitably accompanied by conflict as society divides between those who wish to protect the status quo, such as the Catholic Church which attempted to suppress the discoveries of scientists like Galileo, whilst others, like Shakespeare, welcomed new thoughts as shown in the naming of his theatre as ‘The Globe’ built in 1599. Shakespeare was a humanist who explored the exciting new possibilities presented by the rise of science in his society, and in his play As You Like It, Shakespeare...
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...Accounting. Organizations andSocie!y, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 251-261, 1988. Printed in Great Britain 0361-3682/88 $3.00+.00 Pergamon Press plc FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING: IN COMMUNICATING REALITY* REALITY, WE CONSTRUCT RUTH D. H I N E S Macquarie University, N.S. W., Australia At first I saw Don Juan simply as a rather peculiar man who knew a great deal.., but the people.., believed that he had some sort of "secret knowledge", that he was a "brujo". The Spanish word brujo means, in English... sorcerer. It connotes essentially a person who has extraordinary.., powers. I had known Don Juan for a whole year before he took me into his confidence. One day he explained that he possessed a certain knowledge that he had learned from a teacher, a "benefactor" as he called him, who had directed him in a kind of apprenticeship. Don Juan had, in turn, chosen me to serve as his apprentice, but he warned me that I would have to make a very deep commitment and that the training was long and arduous... My field notes disclose the subjective version of what I perceived while undergoing the experience. That version is presented h e r e . . . My field notes also reveal the content of Don Juan's system of beliefs. I have condensed long pages of questions and answers between Don Juan and myself in order to avoid reproducing the repetitiveness of conversation... (The Teachings ofDonJuan~.A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, Carlos Castaneda, 1970, pp. 14, 24, 25). We stood together, looking...
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...Virtual Reality Close your eyes and imagine yourself to be on another planet fighting aliens or imagine flying over your favourite city on your personal tour. These situations might never materialise in your real life. But virtual reality provides you with an option to experience the thrill and excitement of something like this happening. While currently only in its infant state, virtual reality could exceedingly alter the future of the human race. Virtual reality can be defined as, “a technology that enables users to enter computer generated worlds and interface with them three dimensionally through sight, sound and touch.” (Nequist, Virtual Reality, 1993). Earlier popular only in video games and entertainment fields, virtual reality has now excelled in many other important fields like medicine, surgery, space programs, military, etc. This technology once properly developed and mastered will do wonders in these fields. Virtual reality helps people in breaking the boundations of their routine life and enters them into a 3-D version of the life they dream about. It is very aptly said “virtual reality is the first step in a grand adventure into the landscape of imagination.” (Biocca, Kim & Levy, Communication in the Age of Virtual Reality). This technology also provides us with interface for trials and errors in hypothetical yet possible in real life situations. For example, the military uses virtual training grounds for training their soldiers, virtual flight simulators...
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...Psychological effects of heavy usage of Virtual Reality Smith is a fourth grader who is all into video games; his goal is to have the latest video game. He lives in his video games. He goes to school every day physically and but mentally he is in his video game world, where he is the king of the racing cars and he is rich enough to buy the whole city. He always skips his homework because he cannot remember what he learned in school. While teachers are teaching, he is playing with his video games in his head and not paying attention in class. Teachers always contact smith’s parents and even parents seem to be helpless, because according to Smith’s parents, he gets very aggravated if they try to take his video games and Smith really gets violent with his siblings and friends. Smith wants to sit in locked room holding the remote controller in his hands where he can control several different cars in a second. He cannot remember anything what he does throughout the day because in his mind he is always in the second world. One day Smith was sitting in living room plying with his video games, suddenly his mom falls off from stairs and broke her arm. Instead of calling for help, Smith continues with his games and when his dad asks what happened he could not tell him exactly what happened. Smith told his dad, he does not remember if he sees mother falling down because all he could see that he is losing the game and he has to get more cars in the race. After that Smith’...
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...Society As An Objective Reality The Organism and Activity The concept of social reality according to Berger and Luckmann can be considered objective and subjective in meaning, being that man sees the world in two spheres; one that is based upon ideas that he forms from socialization and of himself and one that is based upon the idea of what is present within society. It is important to note that, man cannot develop as an individual in isolation, in the same manner that the human environment cannot be constructed by man in isolation. Essentially both entities, man and the human environment or society must in conjunction, construct one another in order for them to thrive. According to Berger and Luckmann, “Men together produce a human environment, with the totality of its socio-cultural and psychological formations. None of these formations may be understood as products of man’s biological constitution, which, as indicated, provides only the outer limits for human productive activity” (Berger and Luckmann 1966) Human biology can in no way shape the complex fabric that is human conduct. Therefore, human existence, if it were thrown back on its organismic resources by themselves, would be existence in some sort of chaos. Such chaos is, however, empirically unavailable, even though one may theoretically conceive of it. Empirically, human existence takes place in a context of order, direction, stability. The question then arises: From what does the empirically existing stability...
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...reality. Putting that in perspective would be saying that Carl Jung’s archetypes are the objective reality seeing as though they appear in ever human being’s dreams. Even that wouldn’t make sense then because taking accounts or measurements of something changes the thing measured. This means that for a person to perceive reality it changes the nature of reality meaning that it can’t be absolute. Then to expand objective metaphysics is not real. The whole point of the study of metaphysics is to try and derive objective reality from the subjective reality that human beings experience through their senses and consciousness. Rand’s metaphysics are based on “objective reality” in which she states the human identity and consciousness are the basis. So basically Rand says. “what you see is what you...
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...Bailey Krumwiede AP Literature Hr. 5 Ms. Hand 4 October 2013 Reality or Fiction Reality is the actual person, entity, or event. Fiction is not necessarily based on fact; it is produced by the imagination. By giving the narrator his own name and naming the rest of his characters after the men he actually fought alongside in the Vietnam War, O’Brien blurs the distinction between fact and fiction. The reality is that Tim O’Brien is a real person and he is the author of The Things They Carried. O’ Brien did actually serve in the Vietnam War as a soldier. Unfortunately, it is impossible to know whether or not any given event in the stories truly happened to O’Brien. Through writing about his experiences in Vietnam, O’Brien’s character is able to sort through his emotions, since “by telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down the certain truths” (152). He doesn’t look upon his stories as a type of therapy; he recounts his stories since they are a part of his past, and who he is now is the direct result of them. O’Brien tries to explain the distinction of truth through “How to Tell a True War Story.” The narrator will introduce a character and undercut what he has previously lead the reader to believe, like in Norman Bowker’s suicide. A true war story is distinguishable “by the way it never seems to end. Not then, not ever” (72). In the case of O’Brien, his comments remind the reader that his stories are created. For example...
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...The Reality We Create Anthony Leyba INF103: Computer Literacy Stephanie Webb 27MAY2013 The world around us is becoming smaller, duller and less interesting. At least for the average person the computer screen is where people go to escape the monotony of their unfulfilled lives. Virtual reality seems to be the way of the future. Creating your own world and living a life you could only otherwise dream about. Even providing treatments to the medically impaired virtual reality is a miracle technology with seemingly limitless application. However everything has a price, could this amazing creation have a hidden danger? Why would anyone want to live their real lives that are full of uncertainty, lack of comfort, and no control when they could have everything they have ever desired in a world they create. I believe their are various uses for this technology but without proper restrictions we will lost in the addictive worlds we create for ourselves. When we think of virtual reality we often think of video games and simulated worlds that are used for entertainment or relaxation, but I think that real world application is what makes this technology so remarkable. many companies are incorporating simulated driving so that they may train new vehicle operators without having to worry about damages if a mistake is made. This applies especially to the operation of aircraft where you are traveling at hundreds of miles per hour and have to account for...
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...Social Construction of Reality Your teachers name Your name The date How would you describe my inner mind? Crazy? Genius? They say that both are two sides of the same side. Through my experiences, I shape the world around me, developing a unique perspective from my worldview. When it comes to how I perceive reality you can summarize it in these six concepts: Culture, Meaning, Self, Self-fulfilling prophecy, and scripts, and self-serving bias. My Culture defines me down to my very genetic core it explains why I drive the way I do, how I talk, what is socially acceptable. The culture gives me an already established set of ideas to live by so it’s a major driving force of who I am. My culture gives me meaning it represents how I interpret symbols throughout my life, for example when I see a Christmas tree I think of family, and opening up presents at early in the morning. While others who see could be from a whole different culture and wouldn’t understand the context of why we do what we do. Our culture gives us a script in life based on from our knowledge from the past. My script in life was my parents, they would guide me in the right direction by pushing me to aspire in whatever I did and they were supportive of me of my choices. They also held me accountable for my poor choices and disciplined me for unacceptable behavior. They passed down their guidance to me to pass it on to future generations.This is how our culture thrives and lives on through us. My inner being...
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...Are we to believe everything we see? We humans rush to judgment based on pieces of information we either see or hear, and yet, reality could be very different. I have now gotten to understand the difference between perception and reality. Either way, as you read this paper, you have already begun to infer what will come up next, right? Let me break it down to you, but I will be telling you an interesting, and at most exciting, story of my life. At the time what surrounded us wasn’t clear, but it sure was frightening. As I tried to grab hold of my mom’s hand, I could only make up floating water particles flowing throughout space endlessly. We approached a closed loop where water was shallow and very clear. I wasn’t sure if I was excited or...
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...n Overall Definition of Augmented Reality (AR): Augmented Reality (AR) refers to a live view of physical real world environment whose elements are merged with augmented computer-generated images creating a mixed reality. The augmentation is typically done in real time and in semantic context with environmental elements. By using the latest AR techniques and technologies, the information about the surrounding real world becomes interactive and digitally usable (Carmigniania, 2011). For example, according to Ronald Azuma, Research at Nokia Research Centre, an AR user could see the real world and computer-generated images projected on top of that world by wearing translucent goggles (Azuma, 1997). Virtual Reality verses Augmented Reality: Most of the people may be confused with Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), a concept very similar to Augmented Reality. Here is the main difference between AR and VR. VR is a totally artificial environment that created by computers that allowed users to immerse with this environment. 3-D image is a good example of VR. However, AR is a real-time direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment that has been augmented by adding virtual computer-generated information to it (Hermans, 2000). According to Billinghurst, director of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory in New Zealand, AR allows the users to see the real world at the same time as virtual imagery attached to real locations and object, unlike VR that...
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...History, as we currently "know" it, is a revised edition, revisionist reconfiguring of linear events to a pre-determined destination and thus is a pre-determined mind set for the largely unthinking mass consciousness as we observe it today. Upon closer scrutiny, when real thinking and inquiry is applied to this revisionist text, we must first discard all the usual signposts that we have been "taught" to view history through and within. One of these signposts that we take as "normal," but is really just another revisionist trick of the magicians and spin-doctors, is the linear nature of history and of time itself. Time is not linear, it is spherical and holographic. History, therefore, is not linear, and the revised editions are not only written forward towards a pre-determined destination, it is also written backwards, revised from the back end, starting from the pre-determined conclusion and being filled in accordingly all the way to the beginning. The real question we must then ask is why and how did the spin-doctors know the destination in the first place from which to spin their tale both forwards and backwards? The answer is quite simple, and when considered objectively and without the mind-set of the spin, is painfully obvious. The answer is simply that the destination was inherent in the inception. There was a known and specified constant that guided the so-called "great work of the ages" towards its goal from the beginning. The question then to be asked is what...
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...I have long felt that reality television is contributing to the moral downfall of modern society. This is validated, yet again, by Salman Rushdie in his 2001 article, “Reality TV: A Dearth of Talent and the Death of Morality.” Much like Rushdie, I avoid being pulled in to the idea that watching someone else demean and humiliate themselves for the sake of fame and fortune is an acceptable, moral attitude. However, the media has placed it in nearly every variety of television programming possible. The “tawdry narcissism” (p.4) of society today is blatantly displayed for all the world to see in these programs. Has society today no shame? Have we, as a society, completely forgotten the virtues that separate us from all other forms of life on planet Earth? Is this truly the example that children should see as role models for how life should be lived? Rushdie asserts that people are doing this because “famous and rich are now the two most important concepts in western society, and ethical questions are simply obliterated by the potency of their appeal.” (p.6) These concepts are leading people to believe it is ok to “be exhibitionistic.” (p.6) The things people will do for money! These reality TV shows started out mundane and boring. This made it acceptable for the viewers’ lives to be mundane and boring. They give the impression that this is a “normal” way of living. Never mind the fact that the producers of these programs have engineered the reality the contestants are living in,...
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