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Table of Contents Title Page Who’s Putting Ideas in Your Head? Level 1 - Come Back to Reality, Please Chapter 1 - How to Keep Track of Reality Inception’s Dream Theory Diagrams of Reality A Dream Shared by Soldiers, Architects, and Thieves Dreaming in the Classroom Dreams-within-Dreams Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go A Matter of Time Keeping Track of Reality Are Dreams Less Real than Waking Life? The Butterfly Who Dreamt He Was a Philosopher (How) Can We Know When We’re Dreaming? How Can We Establish Whether We’re Awake or Dreaming? The Stolen Totem Follow the Red Thread (How) Can We Know whether Our World Is Real? Cave Men Shadows of Ideas Job Description for Philosophers Know that You Know Nothing I Doubt, therefore I Am Dreams and Other Forms of Virtual Reality Filmosophy Dreaming Brains-in-a-Vat The Virtue of Curiosity Maybe We Don’t Really Exist? Damn You, Nolan! Damn You, Plato! Why I Won’t Commit Suicide (and You Shouldn’t Either) Happy Ending Chapter 2 - The Mad Neuroscience of Inception The Dream Narrative Dream and Reality Are Not Symmetrical Manipulating the Content of Dreams Entering Other Peoples’ Dreams Embedded Dreams Legal and Not So Legal Forms of Inception Chapter 3 - Inception and Deception Chris Nolan’s Obsessions Whose Thoughts Are These Anyway? Inception 101: How to Deliver Ideas Self and Others Doubt versus Trust Cobb and Mal in Limbo How Do Totems Work? Does the Top Fall? Does It Matter in the End? Chapter 4 - Plugging in to the Experience Machine Choosing a Real Life over a Dream Life Making the Dream Real But Is Berkeley Right? The Power of Choice Level 2 - We’re Not in Your Dream Chapter 5 - You Have No Idea The Feeling of Free Will vs. the Real Thing All Experience Is Inception Group Will Chapter 6 - The Business of Inception This Isn’t the Usual Corporate Espionage You Know the Corporation Who Hired Us Won’t Accept Failure We Want the Heir to a Major Corporation to Break Up His Father’s Empire The World Needs Robert Fischer to Change His Mind Cobol’s Backyard Chapter 7 - Mental Burglary The Defenseless Mind Losing Autonomy Stealing Thoughts Invisibility or Honesty Chapter 8 - Right and Wrong in Dreams The Shared Dream Do Projections Matter? The Un-Shared Dream Does This Matter? Level 3 - The Infinite Staircase Chapter 9 - Ariadne’s Clue to Life, the Universe, and Everything Am I Dreaming Now? Who Is Ariadne? Is Architecture Necessary? Can I Wake Up? Do We Have to Talk about Death? How Many Times Do We Have to Die? So, More Than Forty-Two? Can We Figure It Out? Do You Have Your Ticket to Mombasa? Do We Give Shakespeare the Last Word? Chapter 10 - Once Upon a Time Just Because We’re Paranoid . . . . . . Doesn’t Mean They’re Not After Us Claim Your Own Baggage Training Day? Sharing the Dream Better Living through Electro-Chemistry The Ghost in the Machine Once upon a Time Castles in the Air Whose Dream Is This, Anyway? A Pinwheel and a Picture Do You Doubt Me? Proceed to Carousel One Day Residue Chapter 11 - The Story of Reality Dreams as Realities Memories and Desires as the Fabric of Reality The Story-Making of Reality Striving for Positive Logic Films as Dreams Leap of Faith Chapter 12 - Butterfly and Spinning Top Dream in Daoism Zhuangzi’s Dream versus the Story of Inception The Non-forgettable Self Dreams as Narrative The Codes Structure versus Structurelessness The Lack of the Whole The End? Level 4 - The Most Resilient Parasite Chapter 13 - Dream Bigger, Darling Reality—the World of Inception The First Dream—The Existential Heist The Second Dream—Film Theory The Third Dream—Dreaming Itself The Fourth Dream—a Theory of Mind The Kick—Back to ‘Reality’ Chapter 14 - Shared Dreams in Virtual Worlds Do Gamers Dream of Electric Sheep? Communal Dreamscapes in MMORPGs Architecture of the Imagination Shadows of the World A Butterfly, Dreaming . . . Sleeping to Awake A Dream within a Dream ATTENTION: You’re Already Living in Virtual Reality Spinning Tops and Lotus Eaters Unweaving a Tangled Web An Old Man, Filled with Regret . . . Chapter 15 - The Movie as a Thinking Machine A Dream in a Dream Cognition and Psychoanalysis Film as a Thinking Machine Second Life and Third World Architecture and the Dream Machine Chapter 16 - Where Time Stands Still Slow Time Timeless Sleep Perception and Time The Reality of Time Eternity in Time Mind, Eternity, Limbo Dreaming Timelessness Mental Time and Real Time Eternal Iteration Level 5 - Downwards Is the Only Way Forwards Chapter 17 - Dreams, Mourning, and Desire Desire and Counter-Desire A Way toward Redemption The Choice of Mourning The Question of the Body Epilog Chapter 18 - The Undiscovered Country Called Experience Inception as Phenomenological Philosophy What Do You Mean It’s Only Been Fifteen Minutes? To Leap Tall Buildings in a Single Bound Learning How Not to Wet the Bed Guilt Can be a Real Bitch
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