30 July 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Recently the wild and brilliant imagination of Christopher Nolan brought forth a true gem of a movie, Inception. It’s been making good money and getting rave reviews all around, and for good reason. It’s a heady and philosophical and hence right up our rabbit trail. This time Kevin Saunders and Kiki Canon joined me to […]
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Alamo Drafthouse, allegory of the cave, Batman Begins, Brick, CGI, Christopher Nolan, consequentialism, David Fincher, dreams, emotion, epistemology, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ethics, Fight Club, Groundhog Day, happiness, Hollywood, ideas, Inception, Insomnia, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kevin, Kiki, Leonardo DiCaprio, LOST, lucid dreams, M. Night Shyamalan, Memento, movie pickles, movies, perception, phenomenology, Plato, reality, Rifftrax, Spiderman, Stephen, The Dark Knight, The Matrix, The Prestige, The Sixth Sense, The Social Network, US Postal Service, zombies, zombocalypse
27 August 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Imagine yourself in a movie theater. It is the only place you’ve ever known. The smell of popcorn, the sticky floors, and of course the endless projected movies on the screen are your reality. What would you believe about “the real world” if this was all you knew? Would you even believe there was one […]
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allegory of the cave, Anathem, Aristotle, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bruce Willis, Descartes, District 9, education, geometry, Kant, Keanu Reaves, Kevin, Leibniz, Mac, mathematics, Meno, Occam's Razor, philosophy of mind, Plato, reality, robots, Santa Claus, Stephen, Surrogates, The Matrix, The Republic, Tolkien, truth, virtual reality
