Next Nature On 'Inception'
July 16, 2010
Next Naturephilosopher and former CalArts Visionary-In-Residence Koert van Mensvoort offered earlier this month this postabout the ideas behind Christopher Nolan's new film, Inception.
Written prior to his seeing the fim, but based on a preview included in the link, Van Mensvoort labels the key Inception plot line as, "yet another step in the materialization of the virtual."
Van Mensvoort also writes:
"Although the technologies presented in the film are vastly speculative and assume a level of info-neuroscience that might never be realized - if only because the fundamentally distributed architecture of the human brain would turn out principally incompatible with digital information technology - the thought experiment of having shared dream spaces and being able to steal thoughts directly from someones mind, has a certain luster nonetheless."
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