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image can be produced which is an effective practice aide. There is no reason
in principle that eventually this technology couldn't produce a reality which is
indistinguishable from the real world. It is very interesting that some famous
films made recently deal with the subject. For instance, in a Hollywood film

called "Matrix", when the nervous system of two heroes of the film are
connected to a computer while lying on a sofa, they can see themselves in
completely different places. In one scene, they find themselves participating in
eastern sports; in another, they are in completely different clothes walking in a
very crowded street. When the hero, under the influence of his realistic
experience, says that he does not believe that the pictures are created by a
computer, the picture is frozen by the computer. The person then becomes

convinced that the world which he believed to be real is indeed only an image.
In conclusion, it is possible in principle to create artificial images or, in
other words, an artificial world with the help of artificial stimuli. So, we cannot
claim that what we deal with in the "life image" that we are seeing all the time
is necessarily "the original". Our senses could well be coming from a very
different source.

THE SUBJECT OF THE REALITY OF MATTER IN FILMS

One of the significant developments that has taken place with the bringing
of the subject about the reality of matter to the world's attention and its
being told to the world through a variety of means has been the subject's
being taken up in various Hollywood movies.

You won't remember me,
or having been here... Your money They've got you bugged... The
1 back if you do! 2 3 monitor is embedded in your skull.
In the movie, Total Recall (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger), Arnold Schwarzenegger realizes that the life he believed
was real was merely a program which was loaded to his brain. However, he cannot differentiate between the real
world and the dream world.

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